WoMan fails on the attached putty manpage, here is the backtrace:

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| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-regexp "Unmatched ( or \\(")
|   string-match(" -- 2004\\(hy03\\(hy24" "")
|   woman2-TH(#<marker (moves after insertion) at 67 in *WoMan 1 putty*>)
|   woman2-roff-buffer()
|   woman-decode-region(1 7571)
|   woman-decode-buffer()
|   woman-process-buffer()
|   woman-really-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz" t "*WoMan 1 putty*")
|   woman-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz")
|   woman(nil nil)
|   call-interactively(woman)
`----

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