Hello I heard back from W3C group I queried: The character before the URL is U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET, which is E2 9F A in UTF-8 encoding; see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/27e8/index.htm And the character after the URL is U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET. While not illegal, it is not the regular < > that is used. I wonder if it was pasted from a mathematical wordprocessor. On 16 February 2015 at 17:41, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello MTK > > I saw a problem in the encoding on this page > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hostname.1.html > > See text below with ?? > > > Information about the project can be found at > ??http://net-tools.sourceforge.net/??. If you have a bug report for > this manual page, see ??http://net-tools.sourceforge.net/??. > > > The bytes seem to be some multi byte E2 9F A8 > > Regards, Jonny -- Jonny jg@xxxxxxxx -- 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