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and subject line Re: groff(7) and groff_char(7) use incorrect groff characters
has caused the Debian Bug report #245799,
regarding groff(7) and groff_char(7) use incorrect groff characters
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Package: groff
Version: 1.18.1-15
Severity: minor
groff_char(7) and groff(7) use the groff characters incorrect when they
are describing usage of groff. Some examples:
Ð \[‐D] Eth Icelandic uppercase eth
For readers of the bugreport without UTF:
<U+00D0> \[<U+2010>D] Eth Icelandic uppercase eth
or:
<Eth character> \[<hyphen>D] Eth Icelandic uppercase eth
But, if you write Groff, you must use Latin-1 basic, better known as
ASCII, the first 128 characters of UTF. You cannot cut&paste that
snippet into your groff sources...
The line should have been:
Ð \[-D] Eth Icelandic uppercase eth
In groff(7), a quite some groff codes are also incorrectly escaped.
For example, it tells me to use \A’anything’, but when writing groff, I
will need to use \A'anything'.
--Jeroen
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Versions of packages groff depends on:
ii groff-base 1.18.1-15 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxaw7 4.3.0-7 X Athena widget set library
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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tag + 245799 upstream fixed-upstream
thanks
groff 1.22.4 shipped with versions of these man pages that did not
employ code points outside of Unicode Basic Latin in their sources.
Further corrections have been made to both pages since, and are expected
in groff 1.23.
Here's one example regarding groff(7).
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=2bd31bb3f2de8e8ff21540ca7c247025903d8acc
groff_char(7) has been almost rewritten. Here's a sample commit.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=84639dd9012ae3efce2c38d9154e0df35df4d260
Regards,
Branden
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