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Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: wishlist
Hrumf. Can't use LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8 or else ASCII examples get turned
into smart quotes oversmartness:
$ env|egrep LC\|zh
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=C
LANG=zh_TW.utf8
LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8
$ man bash|grep /bfox|cat -v
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has
$ LC_CTYPE=C man bash|grep /bfox|cat -v
MAILPATH='/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has
So in emacs I must do (setq manual-program "LC_CTYPE=C man")
but what about in the shell? man --ascii apparently is something different.
I can no longer cut and paste examples from man pages, I mean weren't
those examples meant to be ASCII? Am I to blame?
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reassign 354418 groff-base
tags 354418 wontfix
thanks
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:41:02AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Hrumf. Can't use LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8 or else ASCII examples get turned
> into smart quotes oversmartness:
> $ env|egrep LC\|zh
> LC_MESSAGES=C
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LANG=zh_TW.utf8
> LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8
> $ man bash|grep /bfox|cat -v
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has
> $ LC_CTYPE=C man bash|grep /bfox|cat -v
> MAILPATH='/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has
> So in emacs I must do (setq manual-program "LC_CTYPE=C man")
> but what about in the shell? man --ascii apparently is something different.
>
> I can no longer cut and paste examples from man pages, I mean weren't
> those examples meant to be ASCII? Am I to blame?
The authors of the manual pages in question should use the correct
escape sequences documented in groff_char(7) if they want to ensure
ASCII quote marks in the output. \(aq produces ', \` produces `, and
\(dq produces ". groff does not guarantee to output literal quote
characters literally, even if it happens to "work" in ASCII locales.
Regards,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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