From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: tz@iana.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
Geoff Clare <gwc@opengroup.org>,
groff@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/4] zic.8: Use correct escape sequences instead of special characters
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:48:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221123134827.10420-3-alx@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221123134827.10420-1-alx@kernel.org>
See the following table from groff_char(7):
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Keycap Appearance and meaning Special character and meaning │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│" " neutral double quote \[dq] neutral double quote │
│' ’ closing single quote \[aq] neutral apostrophe │
│- ‐ hyphen \- or \[-] minus sign/Unix dash │
│\ (escape character) \e or \[rs] reverse solidus │
│^ ˆ modifier circumflex \(ha circumflex/caret/“hat” │
│` ‘ opening single quote \(ga grave accent │
│~ ˜ modifier tilde \(ti tilde │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Reviewed-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: Geoff Clare <gwc@opengroup.org>
Cc: <groff@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---
v2:
- Transform ' into \(aq [Branden].
Hi Branden,
I took the freedom to take your message as a reviewed-by. Please confirm :)
Cheers,
Alex
zic.8 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
index 7fb51dde..4ef2482c 100644
--- a/zic.8
+++ b/zic.8
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ .SH FILES
.q + .
To allow for future extensions,
an unquoted name should not contain characters from the set
-.q !$%&'()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]^`{|}~ .
+.q !$%&\(aq()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]\(ha\(ga{|}\(ti .
.TP
.B FROM
Gives the first year in which the rule applies.
--
2.38.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-23 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-23 13:48 [PATCH v2 1/4] zic.8: Add public domain notice Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 13:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] zic.8: s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:42 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 19:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 19:14 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 13:48 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2022-11-23 18:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] zic.8: Use correct escape sequences instead of special characters G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 18:43 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-26 2:31 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-26 3:07 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-26 21:19 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-27 0:12 ` Paul Eggert
2022-12-13 23:24 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 13:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] zic.8: Use correct letter case in page title (TH) Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 18:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] zic.8: Add public domain notice Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 19:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 19:19 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 19:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
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