From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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, Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] zic.8: Use correct escape sequences instead of special characters
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:31:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8fa5d28-034c-4080-98d7-a142f467b45e@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dc9b4ee-83c4-9a23-82d5-fd314efd648d@cs.ucla.edu>
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On 2022-11-23 10:43, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I installed that
Further testing showed that the installed patch doesn't work with
traditional troff, which doesn't support groff escape sequences like
\(aq. To fix this I installed the equivalent of the attached further
patch to TZDB.
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diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
index f345f944..ccd012b3 100644
--- a/zic.8
+++ b/zic.8
@@ -349,7 +349,8 @@ nor
.q + .
To allow for future extensions,
an unquoted name should not contain characters from the set
-.q !$%&\(aq()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]\(ha\(ga{|}\(ti .
+.ie \n(.g .q \f(CR!$%&\(aq()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]\(ha\(ga{|}\(ti\fP .
+.el .q !$%&'()*,/:;<=>?@[\e]^`{|}~ .
.TP
.B FROM
Gives the first year in which the rule applies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-26 2:31 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 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] zic.8: Use correct escape sequences instead of special characters Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:18 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 18:43 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-26 2:31 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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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