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2009/12/15 Eliot Moss:
> Following the guidelines related to cygwin 1.7, I have
> generally been using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. But I found that
> if I do "man <whatever>" to get a man page, and then
> search (I have man's "more" program set to "less") for
> a string having a dash in it, say to search for -a in the
> rsync man page to find the description of that flag, it
> fails to match.

Hmm, it's groff being overly clever, replacing ASCII's combined
hyphen/minus (U+002D) with Unicode's specific hyphen (U+2010) or minus
(U+2212) characters. I don't know what to do about it, but googling
"groff minus" or "man page hyphen" shows the problem exists elsewhere
too.

Andy

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