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On 11/29/2011 5:13 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
  Man pages were being formatted with some sort of Unicode
> hyphen or dash character in place of the ASCII hyphen.

Not sure that is the same problem.  What happens if you search for --all 
in man ls? For me, the display looks OK, but the search doesn't work.



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