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Version: 3.0.2-1
The manpage '/usr/share/man/man1/sa-learn.1p.gz' contains unescaped hyphens
which causes groff to render them as hyphens (U+2010) rather than
regular ASCII dashes (0x2D).
This causes problems in a number of cases: for example when someone
wants to cut-and-paste from a manpage -- since programs do not interpret
the unicode hyphen as a dash. Also, most pagers differentiate between
the two characters, making searching for text that includes a dash
difficult.
Please change all instances of the '-' character in the manpage to '\-'
to fix this. The following command should highlight most of the
problematic instances:
zgrep -Hn [^\\]- /usr/share/man/man1/sa-learn.1p.gz | egrep -v
'[0-9]+:\.\\"'
Thanks,
Joe Nahmias
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:58:54AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>Clint Adams wrote:
>> I don't know if this is a pod bug or what. Several hyphens in the
>> manpage should be minuses.
>Reassigning to perl. :-P
This was groff being overly clever. Fixed ages ago.
--bod
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