$ nroff -man < doc/CSV_XS.3 > doc/CSV_XS.man or
$ nroff -mandoc < doc/CSV_XS.3 > doc/CSV_XS.man Used to render up to and including groff-1.22 $row\->[2] =~ m/pattern/ or next; as $row->[2] =~ m/pattern/ or next; but as of 1.23, generates $row->[2] =˜ m/pattern/ or next; which renders all manual pages useless I download the source code to read "NEWS", and I think the relevant section is --8<--- o The an (man) and doc (mdoc) macro packages no longer remap the -, ', and ` input characters to Basic Latin code points on UTF-8 devices, but treat them as groff normally does (and AT&T troff before it did) for typesetting devices, where they become the hyphen, apostrophe or right single quotation mark, and left single quotation mark, respectively. This change is expected to expose glyph usage errors in man pages. See the "PROBLEMS" file for a recipe that will conceal these errors. A better long-term approach is for man pages to adopt correct input practices; the man pages groff_man_style(7), groff_char(7), and man-pages(7) (subsection "Generating optimal glyphs"; from the Linux man-pages project) contain such instructions. Doing so also improves man page typography when formatting for PDF. If you maintain a generator of man(7) or mdoc(7) documents (such as a tool that converts other formats to them), and need assistance, please contact the groff@gnu.org mailing list and describe your situation. -->8--- I wondered for longer why I get those silly and unwanted quotes and dashes, but I am now faced with projects that generate useless files, so I had to complete that task on a system that still had the sane 1.22 and get the results from there. I bet your goals are laudable, but to me readable man-pages and cut-n-paste ready output is way more valuable than visual changes that I happen to not like in the first place however correct that might be. In order to enable users like me to disable that, I sincerely hope that the next release of nroff/groff will support an environment or RC option to disable these translations. And I mean everywhere. I really want "don't" to show as "don't" and not as "don’t", "~" as "~" and not as "˜", and "-" as "-" and not as "‐" and probably many more insane unwanted "intelligent" replacements. I want an environment and not an option, because I personally do not want these translations ever (unless I do, and then an option would be appropriate). Sorry if I sound harsh, but this change already cost me hours of work to fix. I am on the brink of getting the 1.22 source code and install that over the system package of 1.23, which just brings me hate. -- H.Merijn Brand https://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.37 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux https://tux.nl/email.html http://qa.perl.org https://www.test-smoke.org
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