Re: [Groff] hyphen vs. minus sign

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Indeed. This mapping of  \-  vs.  -  does not look optimal, regarding
> copy&paste.
> 
> Input:
>                       \-              -
>                    MINUS SIGN       HYPHEN
> 
> Output with older groff (1.17.2 or so):
> 
> groff -Tutf8        U+2212          U+2010
>                    MINUS SIGN       HYPHEN
> 
> Output with the current groff CVS:
> 
> groff -Tutf8        U+2212          U+002D
>                    MINUS SIGN     HYPHEN-MINUS

I think this misbehaviour is due to your changes in the Unicode glyph
handling, Bruno.  For some reason we've missed the correct mapping of
the characters in the range 0x00-0x7F -- I've already started to
investigate.

> 
> groff -Thtml        U+2212          U+002D
>                    MINUS SIGN     HYPHEN-MINUS

Ditto.  I believe this affects all other devices too.


    Werner