Hi, while trying to view a Greek man page, for example:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/el/man1/help2man.1.html
I noticed that the Greek small letter Phi (u03C6) was displayed as Greek
Phi symbol (u03D5) instead, e.g. like this:
"που εμϕανίζονται στο αρχείο για να συμπεριληϕθούν"
instead of this:
"που εμφανίζονται στο αρχείο για να συμπεριληφθούν".
I reported the bug at my distro bug tracker,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/groff/+bug/1008115
and there I was pointed at the http://manpages.ubuntu.com/groff_char man
page, where it mentions some special handling around phi:
"Greek glyphs
These glyphs are intended for technical use, not for real Greek;
..."
As I undertand it, the problem was in the Unicode standard itself before
version 3, and groff was being conservative in order not to break
existing documents.
Since 13 years have passed from Unicode 3, maybe it's time to assume the
correct mapping for phi, in order for Greek man pages to display correctly?
Thank you, please Cc me as I'm not in the list.
Alkis Georgopoulos
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