On 22/03/2010 16:05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote: > >>>> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >>>> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different >>>> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >>>> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. >> >> This is definitely a bug, since (as avg@ points out) you can no longer >> copy-paste the name & address into an email client. >> >> AFAIK (judging from the Unicode group they're in) these characters are >> intended mainly for writing things like <ENTER> and <CTRL>+<F1> in >> technical documentation. > > And we probably have that usage in other man pages. It is not clear > to me if the problem is the use of these characters for angle quotes > or the use of .Aq for email addresses.
I got it out of the wpi(4) manual first. It probably appears in other places, too. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
