Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 291391 + pending thanks On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:17:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Brendan, here's what I applied upstream (line numbers will be much different): Many thanks Russ, Applied, pending upload. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:02:53AM -0800, Andrew Pimlott wrote: This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and you notice the tip-off bv (bar vertical, box

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm a little suspicious of the \*(W fiddling as well, but I'm not sure I understand exactly why that's being done. The comment says that it's turning \*(-- into an unbreakable dash, but I don't understand why that's being done by

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:18:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm a little suspicious of the \*(W fiddling as well, but I'm not sure I understand exactly why that's being done. The comment says that it's turning \*(-- into an unbreakable dash, but I

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and you notice the tip-off bv (bar vertical, box vertical?). Someone who knows roff could tell if this is the right fix (is tchrist still active?), but this

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2006-03-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:02:53AM -0800, Andrew Pimlott wrote: This old bug just tripped me. It appears trivial to fix with this patch. I don't know roff, but this seems to have the right effect, and you notice the tip-off bv (bar vertical, box vertical?). Someone who knows roff could tell if

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2005-01-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 291391 groff thanks On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:27:57PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary '???' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL).

Bug#291391: pod2man turns VERTICAL BAR (pipe) into BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL

2005-01-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: perl Version: 5.8.4-2ubuntu0.2 Severity: normal pod2man inserts a block of groffese to turn the ordinary, every day '|' character (U+007C VERTICAL LINE = VERTICAL BAR) into the extra-ordinary '' character (U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL). This means, for instance, that '$|' gets