Re: BUG #2009: Unqouted dashes in manpages

From: Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #2009: Unqouted dashes in manpages
Date: 2005-10-30 01:19:17
Message-ID: 20051030011917.GA15298@piware.de
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Hi Peter!

Peter Eisentraut [2005-10-30 0:19 +0200]:
> Am Samstag, 29. Oktober 2005 02:36 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> > The PostgreSQL manpages currently do not quote the dash (they contain '-'
> > instead of '\-', as mandated by manpages). Since this produces a different
> > Unicode character than an quoted dash, these manpages look a bit weird on
> > some locale/terminal combinations, and worse, you cannot search for options
> > without actually figuring out how to enter the unicode narrow hyphen
> > character on your keyboard.
>
> See Debian bug #208967.

Great, thanks for the hint.

Martin

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