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This is because the original was written using the wrong markup. When the output was ascii, nobody noticed, but it matters when the output is unicode.
by tedunangst 2y ago
This is because the original was written using the wrong markup. When the output was ascii, nobody noticed, but it matters when the output is unicode.
- o11c 2y agoThat's revisionism. It was considered correct historically, before someone decided to unilaterally declare all existing man pages "wrong".
- tedunangst 2y agoIt's like we spent twenty years writing (mindlessly copying) web pages with &mdash and only viewing them with lynx, and then somebody makes a graphical browser and the mistake is apparent, but I don't think the browser is in the wrong.