[Groff] Re: '-' characters in man-pages when viewed in en_GB.UTF-8 locale

[Mike Fabian]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> In Unicode there are variants not only of dashes, but also of spaces,
> even of Latin letters.
>
> The authors of text editors and viewers are dealing with the problem
> by providing case-insensitive search primitives (emacs and vi, at
> least). When dealing with a Unicode encoded text, they should - in the
> case insensitive mode - IMO also ignore differences between dashes and
> differences between variants of spaces.
>
>> > Now less tells me "Pattern not found"
>
> The answer are Unicode aware search routines.

That sounds like the best solution. But until Emacs and less support
this, it is probably best to use the workaround suggested by Werner
Lemberg.

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