hi all, last week, I arranged a small training course on SEC, and one of the participants pointed out that on Centos Linux the apostrophes in SEC man page don't format correctly.
After some investigation I have found that on some RedHat-like Linux distros the ’ symbol (ASCII 226) is printed instead apostrophe (ASCII 39). This might cause issues when someone tries to copy and paste examples from man page (most notably, examples regarding the 'pipe' action which uses apostrophes for parsing reasons). I found a relevant thread in one Linux mailing lists where a suggestion was made to write all apostrophes with the "\(aq" macro. Unfortunately, this macro is only supported by GNU roff (the utility that formats man pages), and does not work on systems which have other flavor of roff installed (like Solaris which I am using myself a lot). After searching some other mailing lists I found some comments that there is really no solution to this problem that would work across all UNIX platforms. Oddly enough, I have seen this issue only on some Redhat-like systems like Centos 5.5, but not on Debian-like Ubuntu. Moreover, on Fedora which has strong RedHat influence the issue can be corrected with "env LANG=C man sec" (i.e., when your locale is set to C, you don't have this problem). Now comes my question -- is anyone aware of a way to tackle the problem in a portable way? If not, I am likely to add some comments to the man page that point out this potential apostrophe formatting problem. with kind regards, risto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list Simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users
