Bug 1226153 - Recent versions of groff cause man pages to show hyphen (U+2010) instead of hyphen-minus (U+002D)
Summary: Recent versions of groff cause man pages to show hyphen (U+2010) instead of h...
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
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Assignee: Antonio Teixeira
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Reported: 2024-06-10 14:04 UTC by Ahmad Samir
Modified: 2024-07-01 15:08 UTC (History)
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Description Ahmad Samir 2024-06-10 14:04:40 UTC 
Most CLI tools use `-` and `--` to prefix options; if the man page renders the dashes in e.g. `--version` as two hyphens, copy/pasting to a terminal won't work, because it expects a minus or a hyphen-minus character.

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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/PROBLEMS#n48