Hide Forgot
From Bugzilla Helper: 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
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