https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710#c2 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jw@novell.com --- Comment #2 from Mike Fabian 2008-11-19 11:09:38 MST --- What are your locale settings? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710#c4 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mls@novell.com, werner@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Mike Fabian 2008-11-20 08:22:53 MST ---

Tested and first seen with perldoc, but nroff -man has the same issue, whereas nroff -mandocdb looks good.

I think nobody runs nroff -man, if you use man perlrun nroff is called with the option "-mandocdb" (You can see that in the output of "man -d perlrun"). With the option "-mandocdb" the file /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/tmac.andocdb is used, which contains: root@magellan:~# cat /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/tmac.andocdb \" tmac.(m)andocdb \" \" This is part of the man(db) package of SuSE Linux \" Author: Werner Fink \" \" Just like tmac.andoc but \" load either tmac.andb or tmac.doc \" if !\n(.g .ab These macros require groff. de Dd rm Dd do mso tmac.doc \\*(Dd\\ . de TH rm TH do mso tmac.andb \\*(TH\\ . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\ char \- \N'45' char - \N'45' char ' \N'39' char ` \N'96' \} . root@magellan:~# I.e. this file contains workarounds to keep some ASCII characters commonly used in source code or command lines instead of replacing them with fancy Unicode characters which cause problems when the source code ist pasted or one searches in the source code. If perldoc doesn’t used the option -mandocdb, our above workaround is not used. Why does perldoc not use -mandocdb? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 User mls@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710#c6 Michael Schröder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|mls@novell.com |werner@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Michael Schröder 2008-11-20 08:46:39 MST --- 'nroff -man' is standard, how about fixing it? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710#c8 --- Comment #8 from Mike Fabian 2008-11-20 10:00:59 MST --- Submitted to Factory: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Nov 20 17:48:24 CET 2008 - mfabian@suse.de - bnc#446710: add the workarounds from /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/tmac.andocdb (man package) directly to groff. These workarounds are to avoid rendering - as U+2010 (HYPHEN), \- as U+2212 (MINUS SIGN), ` as U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), and ' as U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK). Using these non-ASCII characters for rendering man-pages with programm examples and command line options is confusing and prevents cut and paste of code examples impossible. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446710#c10 Mike Fabian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wl@gnu.org Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #10 from Mike Fabian 2008-11-20 10:02:38 MST --- Closing as FIXED. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.