Follow-up Comment #38, bug #63354 (group groff):
[comment #36 comment #36:]
> I still see no way around the first,
Ha, because I'm _still_ overthinking it. Groff offers a shorthand for
\h^\w'0'u^ -- and that is \0. Thus the comment #36 suggestion reduces to:
.fchar \[u2012] \o'-\0'
This also
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #63028 (group groff):
[comment #0 original submission:]
> they should think about the order in which they specify the
> characters, as only the last one is likely to end up visible.
An exception is (at least some) space-like characters.
$ echo "\o'abcd'efg" | nroff | ca
