[FLAC 1.5.0-1] Man pages use HYPHEN character instead of HYPHEN-MINUS.
Vincent
vyncere@gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 09:56:10 GMT 2026
Hello Cygwin Team,
My request is related to an issue I opened in the FLAC Github :
https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/861
After some investigations, the issue is related to the build release of the
FLAC package provided by Cygwin : the man pages of flac(1) and metaflac(1)
use the HYPHEN (U+2010 ) character instead of the HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D)
character.
These two commands expect HYPHEN-MINUS character, so if you copy-paste the
man page options in your terminal, it will fail.
Example : flac ‐‐version
will return an error : « can't open input file ‐‐version: No such file or
directory », because of « ‐‐version » with HYPHEN copied-pasted from the
man pages.
The right string is « --version » with HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D).
Example : flac --version
will return : « flac 1.5.0 »
Please, feel free to read the issue in Github (
https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/861 ) for more details, as it's easier
to read code and quotes with the markdown formatting.
This is a very pretty nasty kind of bug, because it's very difficult to
distinguish HYPHEN-MINUS and HYPHEN in a terminal. It's also very difficult
to figure out why the command has failed, as the « No such file or
directory » is not the root cause of the problem.
I think a new build release to fix this, would be very welcome.
Thank you very much for your time and your great work. :)
Kind regards,
Vyncere.
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