Your message dated Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:02:02 +0100
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and subject line manpage for /usr/bin/mutt (/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz)
contains unescaped hyphens
has caused the Debian Bug report #279591,
regarding manpage for /usr/bin/mutt (/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz) contains
unescaped hyphens
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Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.6-20040722+1
The manpage '/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.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/mutt.1.gz | egrep -v '[0-9]+:\.\\"'
Thanks,
Joe Nahmias
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fixed 279591 1.5.19-4
thanks
Hi,
this is fixed in 1.5.19-4, please upgrade.
Unfortunately the documentation is autogenerated, so the autogenerator is not able to distinguish
between an hyphen and a dash.
Resolving.
Cheers
Antonio
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