Bruno Haible <bruno@clis...>, 2007-08-27 00:08 +0200:

> - At many places you put a hyphen ('-', yields '‐') where a hyphen-minus
>   sign ('\-', yields '-') would be more appropriate. Especially in
>   command-line options. The hyphens not only look strange in command-line
>   options, they also don't work:

Forgive me for poking my nose in here, but I wanted to ask about
that particular problem in order to make sure I have the DocBook
manpages stylesheet doing what it should.

So, to be clear, is the following description correct?

If you put a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character into the source for a
groff file, in certain environments (e.g., in a UTF-8
environment), it will get output as a U+2010 HYPHEN character.

And, by the way, if the above is correct, is there a documented
rationale for why groff outputs a U+2010 for it instead of a
U+002D? (Some Unicode recommendation?)

  --Mike

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