Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Some manual pages use kerning escapes* to correctly handle adjacent
roman and italic characters.  The woman function doesn't interpret them,
resulting in output such as the following from `ls'.

  ls [\,OPTION\/]... [\,FILE\/]...

  --color[=\,WHEN\/]
          colorize the  output; WHEN can be  'always' (default if
          omitted), 'auto', or 'never'; more info below

Attached is a trivial patch to remove them.

--bod

* https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Ligatures-and-Kerning.html#Ligatures-and-Kerning