I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
Darren Salt wrote:
Even if vdr doesn't get along with UTF-8 locales, there's no reason why
the man pages shouldn't be properly displayable in them. The attached
patch fixes this by escaping hyphens in option names and replacing
non-ASCII characters with equivalent macros.
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I can see why the umlaut ('ö') might be a problem and will replace it with
"oe".
That'd probably do, though ideally it would be something which is interpreted
as "oe" where "ö" isn't available (much as "\(co" is, to either "(C)" or
"©").
But what in the world is wrong with a simple '-'??? This _is_ a 7-bit ASCII
character, after all!
So's \ :-)
In a UTF-8 environment, the *roff interpreter converts "-" into \xE2\x80\x90
(code point 0x2010) but leaves "\-" alone - and it's not unknown for people
to copy and paste from man pages :-)