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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:41:36 +0100
From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
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Cc: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: FWD: man.conf mandoc -Tlocale
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On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 21:56:55 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> So, we have these mappings:
> 
>    input   output
>    -----   ASCII    UTF-8
>            -----    -----
> 
>        -   -        -
>       \-   -        -
>     \(hy   -        U+2010
>     \(en   -        U+2013
>     \(em   --       U+2014
> 
> See also these lines in chars.in:
> 
> CHAR("-",  "-",  45)
> CHAR("hy", "-",  8208)
> CHAR("en", "-",  8211)
> CHAR("em", "--", 8212)
> 
> So, unless people put \(hy, \(en, or \(em into their example code,
> i would expect copy and paste to work just fine even in UTF-8 mode.

I don't think hyphens will be the problem, but quotes, where people
might have used .Dq when they actually want the literal ASCII quotes ""
as they are to be used in some shell or other code.

In any case, -Tlocale should be the default and is the right thing to
do, IMHO.

Cheers,
Uli
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