Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

I concur with this. I don't think _anyone_ involved with groff development views Unicode as anything less than a tremendous boon to the sanity of glyph and character repertoires. (Oh, how I wish James Clark had decided to store groff characters internally as ints instead of C++ chars. But we'll get that refactored, knock wood.)

I have seen _one_ person grouse that apostrophes (however rendered) and right single quotation marks should be kept logically separate, and I have some sympathy for that view, because they _are_ logically separate--but it seems no English typesetting tradition ever sees fit to distinguish them in print. If I regard were to regard occasional man page authors as intransigent with respect to correct glyph choices, I dread to measure the inertia of commercial publishers.