Fwd: cannot search for -a in man inside mintty under cygwin-1.7

[Thomas Wolff]

moo.tinys wrote:
> using mintty
> LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 mintty
> inside mintty:
> $ man man
> /-
> Pattern not found  (press RETURN)
> q
>
> it's actually -
> $ LANG=C man man
> /-
> (no problem)
> q
>
> any idea?
>    
This was discussed here before but I'm not sure whether a solution was 
already outlined.
The problem appeared on Linux too, some years ago, but has been fixed 
meanwhile.
Differences are:
man calls nroff -mandoc on cygwin, nroff -mandocdb on Linux. The latter 
macro package of groff includes the following which is prepended to the 
manual page before feeding it to nroff for formatting:
.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
.  char \- \N'45'
.  char  - \N'45'
.  char  ' \N'39'
.  char  ` \N'96'
.\}

Checking the program chain of 'man' with procps, some other macros are 
added already (simply using 'echo'), that's where it could also be added 
without a complete new macro package (i.e. without changing groff). 
However, the auxiliary roff codes are apparently hard-coded in man.exe 
so that'll have to be changed.

Thomas

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