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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc.1,v
retrieving revision 1.176
retrieving revision 1.178
diff -u -p -r1.176 -r1.178
--- mandoc/mandoc.1	2017/03/04 17:17:34	1.176
+++ mandoc/mandoc.1	2017/03/08 19:40:59	1.178
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.176 2017/03/04 17:17:34 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.178 2017/03/08 19:40:59 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 4 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 8 2017 $
 .Dt MANDOC 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -465,7 +465,17 @@ input to the
 format conforming to
 .Lk http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\
  "John Gruber's 2004 specification" .
+The output also almost conforms to the
+.Lk http://commonmark.org/ CommonMark
+specification.
 .Pp
+The character set used for the markdown output is ASCII.
+Non-ASCII characters are encoded as HTML entities.
+Since that is not possible in literal font contexts, because these
+are rendered as code spans and code blocks in the markdown output,
+non-ASCII characters are transliterated to ASCII approximations in
+these contexts.
+.Pp
 Markdown is a very weak markup language, so all semantic markup is
 lost, and even part of the presentational markup may be lost.
 Do not use this as an intermediate step in converting to HTML;
@@ -908,6 +918,14 @@ The
 .Ic \&Nd
 macro lacks the required argument.
 The title line of the manual will end after the dash.
+.It Sy "description line outside NAME section"
+.Pq mdoc
+An
+.Ic \&Nd
+macro appears outside the NAME section.
+The arguments are printed anyway and the following text is used for
+.Xr apropos 1 ,
+but none of that behaviour is portable.
 .It Sy "sections out of conventional order"
 .Pq mdoc
 A standard section occurs after another section it usually precedes.