Bug 29214 - Wrong vertical bar symbol in ksh man page
Summary: Wrong vertical bar symbol in ksh man page
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stig-Ørjan Smelror
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Reported: 2021-07-04 17:30 CEST by w unruh
Modified: 2021-11-04 02:16 CET (History)
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Source RPM: ksh-2020.0.0.338.git8d91e8a-0.2.mga8
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Description w unruh 2021-07-04 17:30:00 CEST 
Description of problem:
The man page for ksh consistantly uses the Unicode ⎪ rather than the ascii | for the pipe, or "or" symbol, when it actually means the latter. 
That is the hex "E2 8E AA" rather than "7C". The former does not work
>ksh
$ echo "a" ⎪cat 
a ⎪cat
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2021-07-04 21:21:28 CEST 
Confirmed. I downloaded and unpacked ksh-2020.0.0.338.git8d91e8a-0.2.mga8.src.rpm

In ast-8d91e8a2009ff9196454fea1362627fd1f921196/src/cmd/ksh93/ksh.1 it has
the "⎪" xE28EAA character rather then the correct "|" x7C character, so it's
not a translation error.

Assigning to the registered maintainer, kekePower.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Assignee: bugsquad => smelror

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2021-07-04 21:39:14 CEST 
Reported upstream as https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1491

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2021-11-04 02:16:57 CET 
Received the following from upstream ...

This is one of hundreds of bugs fixed in ksh 93u+m, the only ksh93 fork that's currently under active and open development. Please consider testing the latest code from there. This AST repo is inactive and AT&T will no longer work on it.
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