From: jerry.nospam@theashergroup.com (Jerry Asher)
Subject: Re: Searching for command options in man pages (searching for a hyphen not represented by ASCII 2d)
Date: 20 Feb 2003 18:00:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836fa09a.0302201800.35d3ba7c@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lm0a7ojl.fsf@wesley.springies.com
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> wrote in message news:<87lm0a7ojl.fsf@wesley.springies.com>...
> jerry.nospam@theashergroup.com (Jerry Asher) writes:
>
> > In Red Hat (8.0 but I am pretty sure in 7.x as well), in emacs 21.2
> > hexl-mode shows the bolded hyphen is not ASCII 2D, but is represented
> > by ASCII 92 (ex).
>
> RHL 8 defaults to a UTF8, iirc. So you'd have to enter the unicode
> version of the hyphen... whichever it is that man outputs. Gee,
> thanks....
Not only that, but I think the unicode hyphen (-) is different from
the unicode dash (--). Bleh. So you have searching for <hyphen>b is
different than searching for <dash>backup.
> Here, we just changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to be just en_US, not
> en_US.UTF-8.
Yes, that did fix the problem, thanks!
Jerry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 18:43 Searching for command options in man pages (searching for a hyphen not represented by ASCII 2d) Jerry Asher
2003-02-20 19:22 ` Alan Shutko
2003-02-21 2:00 ` Jerry Asher [this message]
2003-02-21 17:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-22 22:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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