[gentoo-dev] utf8 locals, man pages and copy-n-paste

["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

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From: Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de>
Subject: Re: filename and normalization
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:46:49 +0100
Message-ID: <s3tptsg8qw6.fsf@magellan.suse.de>

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> [wrote]:

> A better temporary solution is to add the following to man.local:
>
>   .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
>   .  char \- \N'45'
>
> At least SuSE and Debian are already doing this.

I extended it a little bit shortly after the release of SuSE Linux 8.1:

    .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
    .  char \- \N'45'
    .  char  - \N'45'
    .\}

because I found quite a few man pages which used just "-o" to write
command line options of programs not "\-o", for example the man page
of "less" does this. Without that hack, groff translates "-" into
yet another variant of "-": U+2010 (HYPHEN).

Recently I discovered that 

   opendir(DIR, $some_dir) || die "can't opendir $some_dir: $!";

written like that in the nroff source of the perlfunc(1) man page also
gets rendered strangely for the terminal by groff.

The apostrophe in can't becomes U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK).
Shouldn't that remain U+0027 (APOSTROPHE)?

And even worse, the U+007C (VERTICAL LINE) in || becomes 
U+2502 (BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL).

I think that should be typeset verbatim, because it is intended as
verbatim quote of program text.

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