Re: man and UTF-8 locales

From: Boris Samorodov <bsam_at_ipt.ru> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:06:33 +0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:54 UTC

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:07:19 -0500 Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:03:41PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:59:12 +0400 Anonymous wrote:
> > > Boris Samorodov <bsam_at_ipt.ru> writes:
> > 
> > > > Manual pages are still broken for UTF-8 locale. Here is a part
> > > > of bzip2(1):
> > > > ftp://ftp.ipt.ru/pub/images/man_bzip2.gif
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  [1]

> > >  `-' (0x2D, HYPHEN-MINUS) renders as `‐' (U+2010, HYPHEN).
> > 
> > > See r192561 and this *workaround*
> > 
> > Yep, there are some workarounds here. I use "LANG=C" to
> > overcome the case. The main question is if this bug will
> > be fixed before release or not.

> It was already fixed on 2009-05-21 and MFC'd to 7-stable.

This screen [1] was taken from 8-BETA3.

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