Am 31.03.2015 um 08:44 schrieb sam...@openvpn.net:
From: Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>
This patch is against the release/2.3 branch
Trac: 512
Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>
---
doc/openvpn.8 | 1800 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 900 insertions(+), 900 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8
index a95d353..bcd2d76 100644
--- a/doc/openvpn.8
+++ b/doc/openvpn.8
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.TH openvpn 8 "17 November 2008"
.\"*********************************************************
.SH NAME
-openvpn \- secure IP tunnel daemon.
+openvpn - secure IP tunnel daemon.
I am concerned this will cause misformattings and inability to search
for options with leading dashes on some systems - I don't recall
versions, but I do know that some systems used some sort of Unicode
(soft?) hyphen for a simple non-escaped MINUS character (ASCII 0x2B).
So, for the release/2.3 branch, NAK for now, and more questions on the
2.4/trunk.
My objections will be void the moment that we can be sure that those
(major) distributions that played with the Unicode outside-ASCII hyphens
in *roff have gone out of support, and supported versions no longer
modify the plain ASCII minus, but render it verbatim.
Hi,
Getting back to this after a while... we did quite extensive tests
earlier. I recall testing the following operating systems myself:
- Debian 6
- Debian 7
- Ubuntu 10.04
- Ubuntu 12.04
- CentOS 6
I was unable to reproduce the search issue or to trigger any
misrendering on any of those platforms. I think RedHat 5 was also
tested, but I'm not sure about the BSD-based operating systems.
In any case the man-page is currently a mishmash of escaped and
unescaped dashes, so if there is a problem, people are already having it
and not caring.
I suggest we do a few additional tests and if no problems are
encountered then merge the patch.
Samuli
