Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-28 Thread Stuart Brady
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 04:39:43AM +0200, Arjan Opmeer wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 20:10, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \`, \(aq, \- etc. yield the real ASCII characters. So groff(7) is wrong in stating that \` is the grave accent and unescaped yields the ASCII 0x60 backquote?

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 04:39:43AM +0200, Arjan Opmeer wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 20:10, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \`, \(aq, \- etc. yield the real ASCII characters. So groff(7) is wrong in stating that

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Jörg Sommer wrote: Package: manpages Version: 2.80-1 Severity: normal Hi, % LC_ALL=C man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump 000 270a ^^ % LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump 000 c2b4 0a00 I think you must tell roff

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer wrote: Package: manpages Version: 2.80-1 Severity: normal Hi, % LC_ALL=C man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump 000 270a ^^ % LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' |

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-27 Thread Stuart Brady
Arjan Opmeer wrote: Looking at the man page I see that the escaped version of some characters are used. \e for \ (which won't work when the escape character is redefined) \_ for _ what is that non-printable, zero width character doing there? \` for ` but the escaped

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-27 Thread Arjan Opmeer
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 20:10, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \`, \(aq, \- etc. yield the real ASCII characters. So groff(7) is wrong in stating that \` is the grave accent and unescaped yields the ASCII 0x60 backquote? How about groff_char(7) that states that \[cq] yields the real

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-26 Thread Arjan Opmeer
Looking at the man page I see that the escaped version of some characters are used. \e for \ (which won't work when the escape character is redefined) \_ for _ what is that non-printable, zero width character doing there? \` for ` but the escaped version maps to the grave accent \'

Bug#485990: ascii(7): Apostroph is accent in UTF-8 environment

2008-06-12 Thread Jörg Sommer
Package: manpages Version: 2.80-1 Severity: normal Hi, % LC_ALL=C man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump 000 270a ^^ % LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 man ascii G 047 | awk '{print $4;}' | hexdump 000 c2b4 0a00 I think you must tell roff that you really mean the