[Bug 2051417] Re: netplan manual page contains U+2010 in option names instead of regular U+002D hyphen

[Lukas Märdian]

This sounds like the issue might be fixed in pandoc 3.1.10, but we don't
have that version in Ubuntu (or Debian), yet.

I'll mark the pandoc package as affected.

** Also affects: pandoc (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  netplan manual page contains U+2010 in option names instead of regular
  U+002D hyphen

Status in netplan:
  Triaged
Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in pandoc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While attempting to search the netplan manual page for "ipv6-privacy",
  I discovered that all searches for options containing "-" (Unicode
  character 002D) fail, and this is because the manual pages have these
  dashes replaced with "‐" (Unicode character 2010). While the
  characters look almost identical, they are in fact different
  characters, which creates problems when searching the manual pages, or
  when copying and pasting options from the manual pages into
  configuration files.

  From Googling it sounds like this problem is quite common with manual
  pages generated using the *roff tools? According to the following
  sources it sounds like the source documents needs to precede dashes
  with a backslash?

  See:
  https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/
  https://www.caichinger.com/blog/2006/09/06/man_hyphens/

  Thanks,
  Nick.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: netplan.io 0.107-5ubuntu0.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-15.15-generic 6.5.3
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CloudArchitecture: x86_64
  CloudID: none
  CloudName: none
  CloudPlatform: none
  CloudSubPlatform: config
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Jan 27 21:48:43 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-24 (917 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210421)
  SourcePackage: netplan.io
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-11-05 (83 days ago)

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