GNU bug report logs - #7577
non-ascii char in manpage

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: tsener <at> bsdmail.com

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: tsener <at> bsdmail.com
Cc: 7577-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7577: non-ascii char in manpage
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:46:01 +0200
tsener <at> bsdmail.com wrote:
> reading through the man page for date, I found this two that look like
> a typo, (â) I guess I could be wrong, but:
>  %x    localeâs date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
>  %X     localeâs time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

Thanks for the report.
I'm marking this as closed, since the generated man.1 file seems to be ok.
Feel free to reopen if you find it's still a problem:

    $ grep 'locale.*date.rep' man/date.1
    locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)




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