Re: [BUG] -T html: \- rendered as something different than ASCII 45

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Alex,

At 2022-01-24T23:35:11+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> (D'oh! I used the wrong email address for all of these mails :-/)

Don't worry--I've made sure to reply to the right one.  :)

> On 1/24/22 22:13, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I found (by accideent) that plain -, which is translated by `groff -T
> html` into plain -, is represented by both firefox and chrome by ASCII
> 45.  When copy-pasted into the terminal, I can execute the command.
> 
> It's \-, which is translated by groff into −, which is
> understood as a weird character, contrary to the expectations.

Right.  For precise consistency with the UTF-8 device, and better
consistency with *roff documents in general, - should map to &hyphen,
and \- to the basic Latin hyphen-minus ("ASCII 45").

Regards,
Branden

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