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Date: | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:51:38 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: UTF-related question |
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > > Following the guidelines related to cygwin 1.7, I have > generally been using LANG=3Den_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. This is neither Cygwin- nor locale-specific.=C2=A0 The man macro package for nroff generates actual hyphens and dashes (em and en) where appropriate.=C2=A0 When you set LANG to C and use the text output form, all of a sudden those characters are not available, so it has no choice but to fall back to the plain ASCII '-' character. If you're looking for an en dash, you have to type an en dash.=C2=A0 I think alt+0150 will work.=C2=A0 If not, you'll have to figure out how to enter Unicode character U+2013. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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