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

[Nick Tait]

Public bug reported:

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)

** Affects: netplan.io (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug mantic wayland-session

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

Status in netplan.io 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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