From dfd6cf5c694608c6dc9e3f7cebdba83ff9b68394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: des Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:56:00 +0000 Subject: When man pages are formatted in UTF-8, .Fl is encoded as U+2212 "MINUS SIGN" instead of U+002D "HYPHEN-MINUS". This is unfortunate for two reasons: 1) this is not the character which is actually used on the command line, and 2) it makes it impossible to search a man page for a specific command-line option. This patch fixes this, but there are other unresolved issues, such as confusion between -, \- and hy: while the latter is always (and only) used for hyphenation, both - and \- are used for negation and subtraction, and \- is used for command-line options and sometimes also for parenthesis. IMHO, the correct Unicode characters are: - hyphenation: either U+2010 or U+00AD, most likely the former (the latter is the so-called soft hyphen, used to indicate a point at which a text processor is allowed to hyphenate a word) - negation and subtraction: U+2212 - parenthesis: in English, U+2214, with spaces suppressed before and after; in some others (such as Norwegian), U+2213 with spaces retained. - command-line options: U+002D, because that is what is actually used on the command line. However, fixing this would require extensive modifications to (at least) the doc and man macro sets... MFC after: 1 week --- contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'contrib/groff') diff --git a/contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto b/contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto index ac0828f..3e69500 100644 --- a/contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto +++ b/contrib/groff/font/devutf8/R.proto @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ st 24 0 0x220B product 24 0 0x220F coproduct 24 0 0x2210 sum 24 0 0x2211 -\- 24 0 0x2212 +\- 24 0 0x002D mi " -+ 24 0 0x2213 ** 24 0 0x2217 -- cgit v1.1