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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-02-09 16:46:13 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2019-02-09 16:46:13 +0000 |
commit | 13f747392cba6b760f1173f6e7affb11dc921d3a (patch) | |
tree | 376cf6fc40f3b648a903dc032708d15dd7212bd1 | |
parent | 6e010d1175e0b79d1ce84b3d4fed64b2f489ef0f (diff) | |
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add a BUGS section explaining the situation with box and line drawing
in UTF-8 output; suggested by bentley@
-rw-r--r-- | tbl.7 | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: tbl.7,v 1.32 2019/02/08 22:51:53 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: tbl.7,v 1.33 2019/02/09 16:46:13 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> -.\" Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2014,2015,2017,2018,2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 8 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 9 2019 $ .Dt TBL 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -438,3 +438,17 @@ reference was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv and .An Ingo Schwarze Aq Mt schwarze@openbsd.org . +.Sh BUGS +In +.Fl T +.Cm utf8 +output mode, heavy lines are drawn instead of double lines. +This cannot be improved because the Unicode standard only provides +an incomplete set of box drawing characters with double lines, +whereas it provides a full set of box drawing characters +with heavy lines. +It is unlikely this can be improved in the future because the box +drawing characters are already marked in Unicode as characters +intended only for backward compatibility with legacy systems, +and their use is not encouraged. +So it seems unlikely that the missing ones might get added in the future. |