On 9/12/22, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: > Flags are different, because often you want this to be a U+2013 > EN DASH. Ie, you want to make it _longer_ than a hyphen-minus.
Not if you want it to paste correctly into a shell. Commands use U+002D for flags, not U+2013. But for natural languages, U+002D is never the correct choice. Typographically there's no such thing as a "hyphen minus" (or at least wasn't until we needed to be able to render this hybrid character for programming contexts): a traditional typesetter used a hyphen, or a minus, or one of the various lengths of dashes. Groff has converted an input U+002D to a proper hyphen in typeset output for decades. It has done so in UTF-8 output since at least groff 1.19.2. If you're seeing newly changed behavior, can you post specific example input, along with what output you see in a previous version of groff and what different output you see now?
