Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages

[DJ Delorie]

address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:
>        Copyright \251 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Character octal 0251 is the ISO-LATIN-1 copyright symbol (a C in a
circle).  Try `M-x standard-display-european' in emacs to see it as a
character (assuming your emacs is using an iso-latin-1 font).

> Would "(C)" be more portable, or is my software out of date?

(C) is not a legal copyright notation.  You have three legal choices:

1. The word "Copyright" (as in "Copyright 2001 DJ Delorie")
2. Abbreviate it as "Copr." (as in "Copr. 2001 DJ Delorie")
3. Use the c-in-circle symbol abbreviation (as in your "\251 DJ Delorie")

Note that if you use the word "Copyright" you do not need the symbol
also - the symbol *is* the word "Copyright".