I don't think rendering the dashes in the regex expression as the en style makes sense. This is a literal regex, so use literal dashes. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/crypt.3 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3 index 9baa80a..453bcec 100644 --- a/man3/crypt.3 +++ b/man3/crypt.3 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ is a user's typed password. .PP .I salt is a two-character string chosen from the set -[\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP]. +[\fBa\-zA\-Z0\-9./\fP]. This string is used to perturb the algorithm in one of 4096 different ways. .PP @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ SHA-512 | 86 characters .TE The characters in "\fIsalt\fP" and "\fIencrypted\fP" are drawn from the set -[\fBa\fP\(en\fBzA\fP\(en\fBZ0\fP\(en\fB9./\fP]. +[\fBa-zA-Z0-9./\fP]. In the MD5 and SHA implementations the entire .I key is significant (instead of only the first -- 1.9.2 -- 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