Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 291391 + pending thanks On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:17:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Brendan, here's what I applied upstream (line numbers will be much >different): Many thanks Russ, Applied, pending upload. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm a little suspicious of the \*(W fiddling as well, but I'm not sure >> I understand exactly why that's being done. The comment says that it's >> turning \*(-- into an unbreakable dash,

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm a little suspicious of the \*(W fiddling as well, but I'm not sure I > understand exactly why that's being done. The comment says that it's > turning \*(-- into an unbreakable dash, but I don't understand why that's > being done b

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:02:53AM -0800, Andrew Pimlott wrote: >> This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this >> patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and >> you notice the tip-off "bv" ("bar vertical

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:02:53AM -0800, Andrew Pimlott wrote: >This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this >patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and >you notice the tip-off "bv" ("bar vertical", "box vertical"?). Someone >who knows roff could

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and you notice the tip-off "bv" ("bar vertical", "box vertical"?). Someone who knows roff could tell if this is the "right" fix (is tchrist still active?), but thi

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2005-01-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 12:14 +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' > >character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary > >'???' character (U

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2005-01-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 291391 groff thanks On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' >character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary >'???' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL).

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2005-01-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: perl Version: 5.8.4-2ubuntu0.2 Severity: normal pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary 'รข' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL). This means, for instance, that '$|' gets tur