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[Bug documentation/3507] use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
- From: "guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 12 Nov 2006 01:13:32 -0000
- Subject: [Bug documentation/3507] use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
- References: <20061111173815.3507.eugen@debian.org>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From guanglei at cn dot ibm dot com 2006-11-12 01:13 -------
Subject: Re: New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages
eugen at debian dot org wrote:
> There are alot of places in manpages where symbol '-' is used for minus sign.
> Those symbols are converted to hyphen by groff in UTF-8 locales. '\-' should be
> used for minus sign (see groff_char(7) for details).
>
Thanks. I should keep '-' in mind whenever I document the man page.
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