Hi Bjarni,
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
<bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
Is there any reason that the explanation should be added to only one
of the files? I'm somewhat inclined just to change the character, and
not add the explanation (so that this page is similar to the others).
Cheers,
Michael
> --- 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
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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