On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:29:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: >Very minor problem with examples with quotes in the manpage: > > To translate uppercase names to lower, you???d use > > rename ???y/A-Z/a-z/??? * > >This cannot be copied directly into a terminal, because man (or nroff >or whatever) has inserted some special type of quote that isn't >recognised by my shell: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rename ???y/A-Z/a-z/??? * >Unrecognized character \xE2 at (eval 1) line 1.
This is due to the way that groff renders ' characters for utf8 locales as U+2019 (right single quotation mark). Compare with: $ LC_CTYPE=C man rename I made a change to Pod::Man earlier to fix a similar problem with hyphens in verbatim paragraphs. Looks like I need to do something similar for quotes. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
