Hi Branden, (D'oh! I used the wrong email address for all of these mails :-/)
On 1/24/22 22:13, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden, > > And another html bug; however, this one seems to be a browser bug, but > please confirm. > > For the following code: > > [ > .TP > .B \(aq\-\(aq > Empty white cell. > ] > > groff(1) generates the following HTML code: > > [ > <p><b>'−'</b></p></td> > <td width="5%"></td> > <td width="22%"> > ] > > However, both firefox and chrome show something that if copy&pasted to a > terminal is different from ASCII 45, and is longer than the proper minus > sign. > > Should I report a bug to firefox? I found (by accideent) that plain -, which is translated by `groff -T html` into plain -, is represented by both firefox and chrome by ASCII 45. When copy-pasted into the terminal, I can execute the command. It's \-, which is translated by groff into −, which is understood as a weird character, contrary to the expectations. Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
