> Aah, sorry, I've changed the `bv' mapping in later groff versions
> (U+2502 is wrong).
BTW, I've just read the XFree 4.5.0 release notes, and I've found this
item regarding xterm:
Add translation to ASCII of commonly-used characters that groff
translates to Unicode, when the font in use do
> >The .tr request translates characters. In this particular case, it
> >translates `|' to `\(bv'. `bv' is equivalent to `braceex' in PS
>
> Hm, here's a suse'd perlcheat.1.gz, which when viewed with a plain text
> editor, contains $|, and not \(bv.
> (http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/perlcheat.1.gz)
Hi,
>In
> usr/[local/]share/groff//font/devutf8/R
>you can see which output codes are used for which input characters.
>Looking into perlcheat.1, you can find this (converted on my platform
>with Pod::Man v 1.37):
>
> .tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
>
>The .tr request translates characters. In this partic
> I have observed that groff changes certain characters in manpages.
> [...]
>
> For example, in perlcheat.1, the $| is changed into '$' and a
> vertical bar if the locale is UTF-8.
>
> real: | (U+0x7C)
> output: â (U+0x2502)
>
> This also to a number of other characters, including the backwa
Hello groff list,
I have observed that groff changes certain characters in manpages. I have
talked about that in Suse's/Novells bugzilla and should discuss it here.
For example, in perlcheat.1, the $| is changed into '$' and a vertical bar if
the locale is UTF-8.
real: | (U+0x7C)
output: â
