Hi Jakub and Branden, On 1/12/21 9:51 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> On 1/10/21 7:50 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>> They use left and right angle bracket special character escapes >>> (Unicode U+2039 and U+203A) > > I think that's a bug in groff. It should use plain <> for URLs, at least > for tty output devices. > > * Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, 2021-01-10, 15:35: >> I checked, and yes, it renders some character (the character depends >> on the terminal: on tty I've seen a diamond, and on the xfce terminal >> something similar (but slightly different) to a parenthesis). > > Your console font doesn't support U+2039/U+203A and uses diamond as a > replacement character. > > I have this in /etc/groff/mdoc.local and /etc/groff/mdoc.local as a > work-around: > > . if '\V[TERM]'linux' \ > . tr \[la]< > . if '\V[TERM]'linux' \ > . tr \[ra]> > > (In the long run, I should probably fix the font instead.) > After seeing Branden's answer to Michael (Escaping hyphens), I've seen groff_char(7), and I found that my tty correctly supports U+2039 and U+203A. I clearly see the symbols I would expect: something quite similar to plain <>, but a bit more obtuse. In the XFCE terminal, I also see something quite expected: a slightly smaller version of <>. But both show me very different characters for .UR/.UE. tty displays a diamond, and XFCE term displays (a weird version of) round parentheses. So... does it mean there's a bug in .UR/.UE? Thanks, Alex
