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Re: man pages with weird characters
- To: David O'Shea <david at ems dot uq dot edu dot au>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- David O'Shea <david@ems.uq.edu.au> wrote:
-8<-
>
> The solution I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change the
> lines:
>
> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tlatin1
>
> to:
>
> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii
>
> This stops grotty from trying to use a special dash character
> (0xAD); it will just use a standard ASCII minus sign as found on your
> keyboard.
>
> This fixed the problem for me at least - I don't know if others
> experience this problem (maybe they do and can just ignore it!), but
> hopefully someone else will find this useful. If this is standard
> behaviour on all Windows boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this by
> default?
>
Yes, and thanks for the fix.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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