Re: man and UTF-8 locales

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:12 -0700
Ed Schouten wrote:
> 
> I'm also a bit puzzled by the nm(1) manpage. It uses U+23AA (CURLY
> BRACKET EXTENSION) for the |-characters in the SYNOPSIS section. Is this
> character really meant to be used this way?

That's just wrong.  The bracket extension characters are
meant to be used in building large-sized brackets and should
never be used by themselves.

Personally, I would stick with U+007C here.

Tim
Received on Wed Sep 02 2009 - 03:11:16 UTC

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