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bug #41806: texinfo2man generates accents instead of quotation marks

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 08 Mar 2014 05:28:19 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
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Mon 24 Mar 2014 02:03:10 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in version 2.2.11 available in the source repository and elsewhere, and will be included in the next general release.

Daniel P. Valentine <dpv>
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Sat 08 Mar 2014 05:28:19 AM UTC, original submission:  

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.

It turns out this was reported nearly nine years ago:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-indent/2005-07/msg00000.html

Attached is the patch again, along with a minor change (replacing malloc.h, which is not in POSIX, with stdlib.h).

Please commit. The diff is small. Thanks.

Anonymous

 

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file #30827:  patch-man_texinfo2man_c added by None (880B - application/octet-stream)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2014-03-24 dpv StatusNone Fixed
    2014-03-08 None Attached File- Added patch-man_texinfo2man_c, #30827

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