Re: [Groff] man problem under non-latin1 locale

[Werner LEMBERG]

>   .shc c
>        Set the soft hyphen character to c.  If c
>        is omitted, the soft hyphen character will
>        be set to the default \(hy.
> 
> The default behavior is in my eyes correct.  The bad
> thing is that the latin-1 device *explicitly* changes
> the auto-hyphenation character to something different
> from the hyphen, which it shouldn't.  The postscript
> device doesn't.

Hmm, the default behaviour can easily be changed, and I don't insist
that the current behaviour is the optimal one.  groffers, please tell
me your opinions whether the soft hyphen character should be set to
\[hy] for latin1.


    Werner