[Bug 1008115] Re: man displays φ (u03C6) as ϕ (u03D5)

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

> "being conservative, groff currently assumes that `phi' in a
PostScript symbol font is the stroked version."

Ouch, yeah if there are printers out there with embedded fonts that follow Unicode  < 3.0, that's a good point. But on the other hand it breaks Greek man pages.
Since that was written in 2006 though, they may now decide to switch the default to Unicode >= 3.0, or at least to introduce some option to select the targeted Unicode version.

Thank you Colin, I'll take it up directly with groff upstream (after a
couple of weeks) and update this bug report accordingly.

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Title:
  man displays φ (u03C6) as ϕ (u03D5)

Status in “groff” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  While running `man help2man` I noticed that the Greek small letter Phi (u03C6) was displayed as Greek Phi symbol (u03D5) instead, e.g. like this:
  "που εμϕανίζονται στο αρχείο για να συμπεριληϕθούν"
  instead of this:
  "που εμφανίζονται στο αρχείο για να συμπεριληφθούν".

  `zcat /usr/share/man/el/man1/help2man.1.gz` vefiries that the problem
  is in `man` and not in the help2man manpage.

  Using man-db 2.6.1-2.

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