Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Eli> On 11 Jun 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

>> But I in emacs using M-x man, I see
>> Copyright \251 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Eli> What man page is that?  I tried several, but didn't see this.
$ bzgrep '\\(co' /usr/share/man/man1/*  #look, I'm smarter than Eli :-)
e.g., man basename.
Funny, "Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
shows the copyright character in gnus, but not in M-x man.  However,
in gnus the mode line is "=" and in Man mode it is "B" for me.
Coding system for saving this buffer:
  = -- emacs-mule
Default coding system (for new files):
  B -- chinese-big5-unix

Does this mean Chinese man pages cannot ever be legally copyrighted? :-)

I just did
$ LC_ALL=C man basename
and now I see
 Copyright <A9> 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
anyways, doing the above bzgrep looking for 'Copyright' finds that not
all the GNU man pages use this [unwise? unportable?] choice of nroff "\(co",
some spell it out, etc.   Hmm, groff_char(7) man page mentions \251.
Hmm, if the "GNU folks hate man pages" then instead of spending time
figuring out the right solution, perhaps just change 'em all to be in
the older ascii realm... i dunno.  Hmm, I don't think there are any
other characters beyond the ascii 128 appering in man pages..
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