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Re: fix for texinfo2man.c (redux)
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Anthony J. Bentley |
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Re: fix for texinfo2man.c (redux) |
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Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:48:21 -0600 |
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Petr Pisar <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 10:14:36PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
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>> The indent(1) man page looks funny in a Unicode environment. It turns
>> out that's due to a bug in texinfo2man. It converts TeX quotes (` ')
>> to troff grave/acute accents (\` \') instead of troff quotes (\(oq
>> \(cq)). As a result, the manpage looks funny in terminals that use
>> Unicode characters.
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>> It turns out this was reported nearly nine years ago:
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>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/2005-07/msg00000.html
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>> Attached is the patch again, along with a minor change (replacing
>> malloc.h, which is not in POSIX, with stdlib.h).
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>> Please commit. The diff is small. Thanks.
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> It has already been committed because current indent version 2.2.11 contains
> the patch.
Ah, OK. Where can I find 2.2.11? It doesn't appear to be available on
gnu.org, and ident.isidore-it.eu is down (for how long, I don't know).
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Anthony J. Bentley