[Bug documentation/3507] New: use of "-" for minus sign in manpages

Li Guanglei guanglei@cn.ibm.com
Sun Nov 12 01:13:00 GMT 2006


eugen at debian dot org wrote:
> There are alot of places in manpages where symbol '-' is used for minus sign.
> Those symbols are converted to hyphen by groff in UTF-8 locales. '\-' should be
> used for minus sign (see groff_char(7) for details).
> 
Thanks. I should keep '-' in mind whenever I document the man page.




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