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Re: filename and normalization

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > the manpage was not using a regular ascii '-', but instead one of
> > > the HYPEN, or EM_DASH things (Which is why i HATE them).
> >
>
> > 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

> A better temporary solution is to add the following to man.local:
>
>   .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
>   .  char \- \N'45'

  Thanks. It worked great. Neither of Mandrake 9 and RH 8 has this
in man.local. I guess they should.

  Jungshik

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