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[G. Branden Robinson]

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commit 65d5170635d553425672b05edfa86be711bbb0ac
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Aug 23 12:13:41 2021 +1000

    groff(7): Drop "Special characters" section.
    
    This material is already covered in summary earlier in the page, and in
    great detail in groff_char(7), which is already cross-referenced.
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 man/groff.7.man | 275 --------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 275 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 32f4145..102cb77 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -4160,281 +4160,6 @@ is treated as
 .
 .
 .\" ====================================================================
-.SH "Special characters"
-.\" ====================================================================
-.
-[Note: \[oq]Special Characters\[cq] is a misnomer; those entities are
-(output) glyphs, not (input) characters.]
-.
-.
-.P
-Common special characters are predefined by escape sequences of the
-form
-.BI \e( xy
-with characters
-.I x
-and
-.IR y .
-.
-In
-.IR groff ,
-it is also possible to use the form
-.BI \e[ xy ]\c
-\&.
-.
-.
-.P
-Some of these special characters exist in the usual font while most of
-them are only available in the special font.
-.
-Below you can see a small selection of the most important glyphs; a
-complete list can be found in
-.BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@).
-.RS
-.P
-.PD 0
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (Do
-Dollar
-.B \(Do
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (Eu
-Euro
-.B \(Eu
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (Po
-British pound sterling
-.B \(Po
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (aq
-Apostrophe quote
-.B \(aq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (bu
-Bullet sign
-.B \(bu
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (co
-Copyright
-.B \(co
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (cq
-Single closing quote (right)
-.B \(cq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (ct
-Cent
-.B \(ct
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (dd
-Double dagger
-.B  \(dd
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (de
-Degree sign
-.B \(de
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (dg
-Dagger
-.B \(dg
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (dq
-Double quote
-.B \(dq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (em
-Em-dash
-.B \(em
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (en
-En-dash
-.B \(en
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (ha
-Caret/spacing circumflex accent (\[lq]hat\[rq])
-.B \(ha
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (hy
-Hyphen
-.B \(hy
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (lq
-Double quote left
-.B \(lq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (oq
-Single opening quote (left)
-.B \(oq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (rg
-Registered sign
-.B \(rg
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (rq
-Double quote right
-.B \(rq
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (rs
-Reverse solidus/backslash
-.B \(rs
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (sc
-Section sign
-.B \(sc
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (ti
-Tilde (spacing)
-.B \(ti
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (tm
-Trademark symbol
-.B \(tm
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (ul
-Underline character
-.B \(ul
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (==
-Identical
-.B \(==
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (>=
-Larger or equal
-.B \(>=
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (<=
-Less or equal
-.B \(<=
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (!=
-Not equal
-.B \(!=
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (\->
-Right arrow
-.B \(->
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (<\-
-Left arrow
-.B \(<-
-.
-.TP
-.ESC (+\-
-Plus-minus sign
-.B \(+-
-.
-.PD
-.RE
-.
-.
-.\" ====================================================================
-.SS "Unicode characters"
-.\" ====================================================================
-.
-The extended escape
-.B u
-allows the inclusion of all available Unicode characters into a
-.I roff
-file.
-.
-.
-.TP
-.BI \e[u xxxx ]
-.B u
-is the escape name.
-.
-.I xxxx
-is a hexadecimal number of four hex digits, such as
-.B 0041
-for the letter
-.BR A ,
-thus
-.BR \e[u0041] .
-.
-.
-.TP
-.BI \e[u yyyyy ]
-.B u
-is the escape name.
-.
-.I yyyyy
-is a hexadecimal number of five hex digits, such as
-.B 2FA1A
-for a Chinese-looking character from the Unicode block
-.IR "CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement" ,
-thus
-.BR \e[u2FA1A] .
-.
-.
-.P
-The hexadecimal value indicates the corresponding Unicode code point for
-a character.
-.
-.
-.TP
-.BI \e[u hex1 _ hex2 ]
-.TQ
-.BI \e[u hex1 _ hex2 _ hex3 ]
-.IR hex1 ,
-.IR hex2 ,
-and
-.I hex3
-are all Unicode hexadecimal codes (4 or 5 hex digits) that are used
-for overstriking, e.g.,
-.B \e[u0041_0301]
-is
-.IR "A acute" ,
-which can also be specified as
-.BR \['A] ;
-see
-.BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@).
-.
-.
-.P
-The availability of the Unicode characters depends on the font used.
-.
-For text mode, the device
-.B \-Tutf8
-is quite complete; for
-.I troff
-modes it might happen that some or many characters will not be
-displayed.
-.
-Please check your fonts.
-.
-.
-.\" ====================================================================
 .SH Strings
 .\" ====================================================================
 .