Bug#262592: exim4-base: Man pages render hypens incorrectly in UTF-8 locales

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:34:36AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.34-4
> Severity: normal

I disagree with the severity of this bug. Please downgrade to minor.

> > If you're using a UTF-8 locale and are having problems searching for
> > dashes in man pages such as those in command-line options, this may be
> > because the man page uses "-" rather than "\-" to represent them, so they
> > get rendered as a Unicode hyphen which isn't the one you can type
> > conveniently on your keyboard.

So what you're suggesting is not having any unescaped hyphens in any
manpage?

That should be easy to accomplish, but needs to be submitted upstream
for exim.8. All other man pages are ours anyway.

Andreas, have we submitted out man pages upstream?

Greetings
Marc

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