Re: filename and normalization

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:25:14PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote:
>   I discovered that a long time ago and gave up copy'n'pasting from
> man pages.  I began to write that those characters should not be used in
> man pages, but then I came up with a couple of argument against my own and
> didn't send a message here. One of them was that you can configure the
> way your 'man' works in man.config.  You can set NROFF to use '-Tascii
> -man' and you get 'ASCII approximation' of real em_dash, hyphen etc so
> that you can copy and paste and search backwad/forward for command line

There are plenty of cases where you *want* real dashes and so on.

> options. Another was that man page is not only for screen viewing but
> also for print out. When printed out, genuine hyphen and em dash look
> certainly better than their ASCII approximation.

When "--help" is printed, I want to see two hyphens, not a dash.

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