Henry Spencer wrote on 2002-12-04 20:11 UTC: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > When "--help" is printed, I want to see two hyphens, not a dash. > > You probably want to see two minus signs, not two hyphens...
You probably want to see two HYPHEN-MINUS characters, which are in the Postscript standard fonts only provided by Courier. Attempting to output a HYPHEN-MINUS character in a non-typewriter font should perhaps lead to warning messages for the author. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
