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[bug #61394] [troff] emits U+2010 HYPHEN when interpolating negative reg


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [bug #61394] [troff] emits U+2010 HYPHEN when interpolating negative register values
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 05:43:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Update of bug #61394 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Postponed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Oh, no--this is going to be hard.  We need something we can read back because
interpolations are frequently nested.

We have to either accept \- everywhere we'd accept '-' (but what if the escape
character is changed), or translate '-' to '\-' only when we know we're going
to an output device, and that's hard to know because the whole point of
diversions is to hide that information.

Postponing.

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