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
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.