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I guess the -Tutf8 parameter also showed by procps (with some luck while invoking man...):moo.tinys wrote:
using mintty
LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 mintty
inside mintty:
$ man man
/-
Pattern not found (press RETURN)
With UTF-8, hyphen/minus symbols in the man page are displays as the Unicode codepoints for hyphen or minus. These are different from ASCII '-', which is why your search didn't turn up anything.
This isn't mintty-specific.
Thomas Wolff:
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'
.\}
Thanks, glad to hear there is a fix. I'll use this in the mintty manpage, so at least searching will work there.
Question: what's the *[.T] pattern matched against?
I mean those being echoed into the nroff pipe as revealed by 'procps xww' while running man:Checking the program chain of 'man' with procps, some other macros are addedWhat are those auxiliary roff codes?
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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