Latin-1 character 160 (nbsp) in manpages

Hi David,

David Nebauer writes:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > /usr/share/man/man1/refdbc.1:143: warning: can't find numbered character 160
 > /usr/share/man/man1/refdbc.1:143: warning: can't find numbered character 160
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I can't reproduce this problem over here. I've tried this on FreeBSD,
Cygwin, and Debian (testing) without getting warnings like this. I
wonder whether this is a localization issue.

In any case, the DocBook stylesheets indeed put the non-breaking space
where you see it, and they do so on purpose. Just have a look at the
manpages/charmap.groff.xsl file which contains the mapping of the
groff construct "\ " to the character #160.

For the time being I've changed the driver file which RefDB uses to
process the man pages.

 > You can see groff strips out the offending characters. Incidentally, the 
 > layout would look better if the table caption had its own line.
 > 

While I was at it, I also put the caption on a separate line. The only
downside is that the tables are not numbered. I don't think this is
going to cause problems as the tables are always rendered where they
belong.

 > I know I'm being picky here but an error is an error...
 > 

Actually it is a good sign if we have the time to ponder problems like
these. This means that the rest of the program is more or less working
ok.

regards,
Markus

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