Package: curl
Version: 7.88.1-11
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Me looking at the man page of curl and searching in it.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Using my standard locale, looking like this:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=POSIX
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
I started "man curl | less". Then I searched for "--compressed".
* What was the outcome of this action?
Not all hits get found. For example, the example
curl --compressed https://example.com
is skipped by the search.
Reason being that the man page uses \u2010 instead of ASCII minus chars.
To be seen also by running:
[~]$ man curl | grep -c $'\u2010\u2010compressed
5
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That ASCII minus characters are used for command line options.
Of course, it could also be that "man"/"*roff" is at fault here ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages curl depends on:
ii libc6 2.37-6
ii libcurl4 7.88.1-11
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1
curl recommends no packages.
curl suggests no packages.
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