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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 10:42:12 -0800
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Subject: Re: [FLAC 1.5.0-1] Man pages use HYPHEN character instead of
 HYPHEN-MINUS.
To: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:50 AM Thomas Wolff via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 05.02.2026 um 17:39 schrieb Lemke, Michael - SCHAEFFLER via Cygwin:
> > INTERNAL
> > On February 5, 2026 5:20 PM John Ruckstuhl wrote:
> >>> This is a 2-phase problem. While you might manage to get man suppliers
> to
> >>> clean up what they release (I have serious doubts about that
> happening, but
> >>> I hope I'm wrong), that doesn't do anything about pasting from web
> pages,
> >>> documents, etc. where text is often mangled with HTML and/or Unicode
> >>> characters.
> You mean like &#x20ac; or &amp; ?
> They get copied to the clipboard as the intended characters, not the
> escapes, and thus pasted fine.
> Tested with Firefox. If your browser dumps the escape sequence instead
> into the clipboard, the browser is buggy.
> Thomas


OK, we're getting waaay off topic here, but suppose a web page decides to
"pretty up" an example line of code so that instead of displaying this:
<img src="someURL">'My Image'</img>
the page uses this:
<big>&#139;</big>img src=&#147;someURL&#148;<big>&#155;</big>&#145;My
Image&#146;<big>&#139;</big>/img<big>&#155;</big>

I have seen poorly written web pages do this (often Wordpress pages) so
this is not hypothetical.

If you copy and paste that, you do not get the simple ASCII text that you
want. but rather this:
e280b9696d67207372633de2809c736f6d6555524ce2809de280bae280984d7920496d616765e28099e280b92f696d67e280ba
Confirmed with FF.

I see that I misspoke when I said HTML. The problem is the Unicode that
HTML codes will be turned into when displayed.

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