I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
Darren Salt wrote:
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.
[ ...manpage_locale_independent.patch...]
Just wondering: is there a particular reason why you left out these:
[snip]
Yes. It's only those which really must be literal '-'s which need to be
escaped. (BTW, "set-top box" is correct.)
[snip]
I guess a simple "change all '-' to '\-'" should be ok, shouldn't it?
No. Normal practice is to use '\-' only where ASCII '-' is required and
'-' where a hyphen is required. (I'm not sure what to do where a minus
sign is required, though: Unicode uses code point 0x2012 for this.
Presumably there's a *roff macro for it.)
To be honest, I find it a little confusing having to distinguish between
normal '-', "hyphen" and "minus" - they're all the same to me.
They are, in most 8-bit encodings of which I'm aware.
So, does it hurt if _all_ '-' are escaped? And I mean, does it _really_
hurt? If not, I'll just escape _all_ '-' characters.
There's something else to consider: '\-' is non-breaking whereas '-' isn't,
as the attached file, when viewed via 'man -l', demonstrates.
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.PP
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a
.PP
b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b
b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b\-b