[bug #62494] [grotty] Remap ~ and ^ to their ASCII equivalents

[John Gardner]

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                 Summary: [grotty] Remap ~ and ^ to their ASCII equivalents
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: alhadis
            Submitted on: Sat 21 May 2022 03:34:14 AM AEST
                Category: Device - others/general
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Sat 21 May 2022 03:34:14 AM AEST By: John Gardner <alhadis>
In Groff 1.22.4, tildes and carets are respectively rendered in man pages as ~
<https://graphemica.com/%7E> and ^ <https://graphemica.com/%5E>. Since then,
there appears to have been a regression of sorts: -Tutf8 now renders tildes
and carets as ˜ <https://graphemica.com/%CB%9C> and ˆ
<https://graphemica.com/%CB%86>.

Now, I understand that this is the intended behaviour; groff_char(7) does a
commendable job of explaining the seven oddballs of Groff's character set.
However, folks aren't used to seeing stuff like ˜/.curlrc or /ˆ.*/ in their
man pages, so unless the original behaviour is restored by the next release,
users are going to complain about "mangled" man pages after upgrading to Groff
1.23.0…







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