Hoary Array 6: "non-printable characters" in the mdadm manual page

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:07:43PM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:01 +0100, Herbert Straub wrote:
> > With man mdadm the "-" character could not displayed. There is a "block" instead
> > of a "-". I compare the mdadm and the grub manual page with zless and see, that
> > the grub page conaining "\-\-" and this is displayed correctly. The mdadm page
> > containing "--". Im using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and keymap german. This situation
> > appears in the console tty*.
> 
> Check out /etc/groff/
> 
> There are a couple of files in there to deal with man and mdoc pages.
> 
> Near the bottom of each is a couple of lines you can uncomment to force
> the manual pages to use ordinary "-" characters

I wish we could fix the console fonts so that they all included Unicode
HYPHEN. Failing that, I think I'm leaning towards giving up and
rendering - as the ASCII "-" character rather than a proper hyphen in
the utf8 driver, both in Debian and Ubuntu.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]