Bug 79102

Summary: Broken hyphen-minus character in man pages in UTF-8 locale
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Markus Kuhn <mgk25>
Component: groffAssignee: Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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URL: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-12/msg00042.html
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Description Markus Kuhn 2002-12-05 18:10:17 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

Description of problem:
gnroff under RH80 translates the HYPHEN-MINUS character (U+002D) into a
Unicode HYPHEN (U+2010), which probabaly was not a good idea. As a
result, cut&pasting command line examples from man pages into xterm
leads to syntax errors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
groff-1.18-6
man-1.5j-11
man-pages-1.53-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 xterm
2. man ls
3. Cut & paste the displayed command line option "-a" into bash as part of the
command "ls -a"


Actual Results:  ls: -a: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  A directory listing

Additional info:

Other distributions like SuSE and Debian fixed this by adding the following to
man.local:

    .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
    .  char \- \N'45'
    .  char  - \N'45'
    .\}

Related thread on linux-utf8:

  http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-12/msg00042.html
  http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-12/msg00091.html
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2002-12-06 10:36:18 UTC 
The Red Hat Linux rpm includes all debian changes and the current rawhide
rpm on top of groff-1.18.1 includes this change from debian. Recompiling
the rawhide rpm and using it on a RHL8 system should be no problem.

Thanks a lot,

Florian La Roche