From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (fantadrom.bsd.lv [local]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 03af4396 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 11:46:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 11:46:44 -0500 (EST) X-Mailinglist: mandoc-source Reply-To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 From: schwarze@mandoc.bsd.lv To: source@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: mandoc: add a BUGS section explaining the situation with box and line X-Mailer: activitymail 1.26, http://search.cpan.org/dist/activitymail/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: Log Message: ----------- add a BUGS section explaining the situation with box and line drawing in UTF-8 output; suggested by bentley@ Modified Files: -------------- mandoc: tbl.7 Revision Data ------------- Index: tbl.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/tbl.7,v retrieving revision 1.32 retrieving revision 1.33 diff -Ltbl.7 -Ltbl.7 -u -p -r1.32 -r1.33 --- tbl.7 +++ tbl.7 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons -.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -438,3 +438,17 @@ reference was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv and .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . +.Sh BUGS +In +.Fl T +.Cm utf8 +output mode, heavy lines are drawn instead of double lines. +This cannot be improved because the Unicode standard only provides +an incomplete set of box drawing characters with double lines, +whereas it provides a full set of box drawing characters +with heavy lines. +It is unlikely this can be improved in the future because the box +drawing characters are already marked in Unicode as characters +intended only for backward compatibility with legacy systems, +and their use is not encouraged. +So it seems unlikely that the missing ones might get added in the future. -- To unsubscribe send an email to source+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv