man page portability concern

[Wendy Palm]

nroff has a problem with a character on the man pages for many of the
utilities on our machines.

man yes
results in the screen messing up the output.
i traced it down to the Copyright line
Copyright \(co 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

\(co gives a copyright symbol on my linux box, but
results in the curser going to the top of the window
and overwriting on all my other machines
sun blade (5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100)
irix (IRIX64 da 6.5 01200532 IP27)
and all my Crays.

can this character be pulled out of the Copyright line?
or am i missing something here?

thanks much,
wendy


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wendy palm
Cray Open Software Development, Cray Inc.
wendyp at cray.com, 651-605-9154