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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.

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