Re: Non utf8 characters in page standards.7

[Jonny Grant <jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>]

On 12/04/15 08:22, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 9 October 2014 at 13:24, Jonny Grant <jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/standards.7.html
>>
>> Hello
>> I noticed this page has come corrupt bytes in HTML source:
>>
>> under the auspices of the Austin group
>> ??<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/austin/">http://www.opengroup.org/austin/</a>??.
>>
>>
>> See ?? in my quote above.
>>
>> In hex, the bytes are E2 9F A8  and  E2 9F A9
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> There are other occurances with other links too. may affect other pages too
>
> These are the characters generated to the .UR/.UE macro pair (see groff_man(7)).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>


Hello Michael

Thank you for your reply.

Perhaps the .UR/.UE characters could be taken out?

⟨http://www.opengroup.org/austin/⟩

The COLOPHON URL link doesn't have them. Ideally IMHO English man pages 
would have only ASCII characters

Of course, could use the regular < > characters

Regards, Jonny


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