Package: man-pages
Version: 3.40
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
From "groff -ww ...":
<groff: iso_8859-2.7>:89: warning: can't find special character `shc'
This is the only "iso_8859-*.7" file that has this (now)
undefined character. The code in column four in "iso_8859-1.7" is
"0x2D" ("HYPHEN, MINUS SIGN" or "HYPHEN-MINUS") instead of "0xAD".
See Debian bug 156154 (or package "manpages").
There should be an explanation for this graphic character and the
code should be 0xAD in iso_8859-1.7 (as in all others), even though
"[gn]roff" does not display a "HYPHEN" in that position of the table.
The line with "SOFT HYPHEN" gets a footnote and a short
explanation. The footnote is from the official ISO standard.
Suggested patch for one of the files:
--- iso_8859-1.7 2012-04-26 22:58:39.000000000 +0000
+++ iso_8859-1.7.new 2012-05-10 16:01:39.000000000 +0000
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
in an environment configured for ISO 8859-1.
.TS
-l l l c lp-1.
+l2 l2 l2 c2 lp-1.
Oct Dec Hex Char Description
_
240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
252 170 AA ª FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
253 171 AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254 172 AC ¬ NOT SIGN
-255 173 AD - SOFT HYPHEN
+255 173 AD SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line breaks)¹
256 174 AE ® REGISTERED SIGN
257 175 AF ¯ MACRON
260 176 B0 ° DEGREE SIGN
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
376 254 FE þ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
377 255 FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
+ ¹ A graphic character that is imaged by a graphic symbol
+identical with, or similar to, that representing HYPHEN, for use
+when a line break has been established wihin a word.
+.BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
+paragraph 6.3.3.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ascii (7),
.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
