Re: man page encoding

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Keith Adamson wrote:

> Small gripe concerning your outstanding work.
>
> I have always used the "man" pages to look up command line options.  Now
> I find that if I use the mouse to drag/drop an option from the "man"
> page output to a term window it doesn't work in a bash shell ... for
> some reason the "-" char in the "man" page output is not the same "-"
> char that bash expects (the man page "-" char is three bytes long 0xe2
> 0x88 0x92).  Whats worse is that the char looks the same as the standard
> '-' (ASCII, 0x2d) in the term window.  When the command is run it always
> results bad and critic output.
>
> Can this be fixed?
>  
This is not a gnome issue.  You probably switched over to a UTF-8 based 
locale, and groff is outputting the dashes as em dashes (those three 
bytes make up the single character U+2212).  You can change what groff 
outputs by editing some of the files under 
/usr/share/groff/x.y/font/devutf8.

James.

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