On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:25:14PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > I discovered that a long time ago and gave up copy'n'pasting from > man pages. I began to write that those characters should not be used in > man pages, but then I came up with a couple of argument against my own and > didn't send a message here. One of them was that you can configure the > way your 'man' works in man.config. You can set NROFF to use '-Tascii > -man' and you get 'ASCII approximation' of real em_dash, hyphen etc so > that you can copy and paste and search backwad/forward for command line
There are plenty of cases where you *want* real dashes and so on. > options. Another was that man page is not only for screen viewing but > also for print out. When printed out, genuine hyphen and em dash look > certainly better than their ASCII approximation. When "--help" is printed, I want to see two hyphens, not a dash. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
