Hello Bjarni,
Late follow-up...
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
<bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:01:04AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
>> <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [removed text]
>>
>> Any further update to that last sentence of yours? Is man-pages able
>> to use that patch you sent?
>>
> I have done nothing in this case, and I suppose that will wait
> until autumn or winter.
>
> A better solution is to simplify the footnote:
>
> See groff_char(7) (soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 (shy)
> or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
So, I applied the patch below. Okay?
Cheers,
Michael
--- a/man7/iso_8859-1.7
+++ b/man7/iso_8859-1.7
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ manual page.
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 <A0> NO-BREAK SPACE
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ _
252 170 AA <AA> FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
253 171 AB <AB> LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
254 172 AC <AC> NOT SIGN
-255 173 AD - SOFT HYPHEN
+255 173 AD <AD> SOFT HYPHEN (shown as a hyphen at line
breaks) [1]
256 174 AE <AE> REGISTERED SIGN
257 175 AF <AF> MACRON
260 176 B0 <B0> DEGREE SIGN
@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ _
376 254 FE <FE> LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
377 255 FF <FF> LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
.TE
+.IP [1] 4
+See
+.BR groff_char (7)
+(soft hyphen) and the standard ISO 8859-1 ("shy",
+paragraph 6.3.3)
+or the equivalent version from your national standardization body.
+.BR "ISO 8859-1:1987" ,
+paragraph 6.3.3.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ascii (7),
.BR iso_8859-15 (7)
--
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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