On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:34:29PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > > man report a warning when there is "“" or "”" in the manpage[1]. > (bash.zh_CN.1 in attachment) > > I think these two character should be accepted. because it's widely used in > simplified chinese and it's in the GB 2312 charset[2][3] and almost all > chinese fonts provide this.
As Colin (the man-db maintainer) said in the mail [4] to debian-devel-announce list, the usage of characters in a manpage is still limited by groff. And according to groff_char(7), the curly double quotes should be written as \[lq] for U+201C and \[rq] for U+201D. So I think man-db is giving a valid warning. It can be argued that the curly quotes should be accepted, but that should be a groff bug instead of a man-db one. > [1] > $ export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8; man -l bash.zh_CN.1 > /dev/null > <standard input>:48: warning: can't find special character `u201C' > <standard input>:48: warning: can't find special character `u201D' 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/02/msg00005.html Ming 2008.02.23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]