Re: UTF-8 gnroff mangles up syntax samples

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <E18JvlY-0001zw-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> One temporary solution might be that man page authors should typeset all
> ASCII strings that are intended to be used verbatimly by users in a
> monospaced typewriter font. In that case, gnroff should not interpret
> these ASCII characters as mnemonics for non-ASCII characters, but should
> just pass them on transparently.
> 

ICK No!

> The longterm solution is to remove the ASCII mnemonics from grep
> entirely, turn man page source files into proper UTF-8 files, to avoid
> such translation accidents.

Not going to happen any time soon.  There is a huge corpus of this
already, and it's just not going to be easy.

	-hpa
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