2009/12/15 Eliot Moss: > Following the guidelines related to cygwin 1.7, I have > generally been using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. But I found that > if I do "man <whatever>" to get a man page, and then > search (I have man's "more" program set to "less") for > a string having a dash in it, say to search for -a in the > rsync man page to find the description of that flag, it > fails to match.
Hmm, it's groff being overly clever, replacing ASCII's combined hyphen/minus (U+002D) with Unicode's specific hyphen (U+2010) or minus (U+2212) characters. I don't know what to do about it, but googling "groff minus" or "man page hyphen" shows the problem exists elsewhere too. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
