0000543: [PATCH] Escaping of hypens in manpages

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(0001994) madsdyd (administrator) 2009-01-01 17:44	Thanks. Could you perhaps explain why these escapes are needed? Regards Mads

(0001995) the-me (reporter) 2009-01-01 17:53	From lintian (which should explain everything): Manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was intended. '-' chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by groff, not as minus signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus signs (U+002D), this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot cut&paste options, nor search for them easily. '-' must be escaped ('\-') to be interpreted as minus. If you really intend a hyphen, write it as '\(hy' to emphasise that fact. See groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and also the thread starting with http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481.html [^] If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format, it might be possible that this tool converts dashes of any kind to groff hyphens, while the safe way of converting dashes is usually to convert them to '\-'.

(0002106) madsdyd (administrator) 2009-01-11 22:33	Applied in svn rev 2895 - thanks.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2008-12-30 19:27	the-me	New Issue
2008-12-30 19:27	the-me	File Added: 01-escape-hyphens-man.dpatch
2008-12-30 19:27	the-me	Build/Install Method	=> Distribution package
2009-01-01 17:44	madsdyd	Note Added: 0001994
2009-01-01 17:44	madsdyd	Status	new => feedback
2009-01-01 17:53	the-me	Note Added: 0001995
2009-01-11 22:28	madsdyd	Status	feedback => assigned
2009-01-11 22:28	madsdyd	Assigned To	=> madsdyd
2009-01-11 22:33	madsdyd	Note Added: 0002106
2009-01-11 22:33	madsdyd	Status	assigned => resolved
2009-01-11 22:33	madsdyd	Fixed in Version	=> Recent git
2009-01-11 22:33	madsdyd	Resolution	open => fixed
2009-02-02 23:42	xzhayon	Fixed in Version	Recent git => 0.7.2
2009-02-02 23:49	xzhayon	Status	resolved => closed

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