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diff -u -p -r1.176 -r1.179
--- mandoc/mandoc.1	2017/03/04 17:17:34	1.176
+++ mandoc/mandoc.1	2017/03/18 19:51:19	1.179
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.176 2017/03/04 17:17:34 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc.1,v 1.179 2017/03/18 19:51:19 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 18 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;
@@ -601,8 +611,16 @@ Meta data is not available in this case.
 .It Ev MANPAGER
 Any non-empty value of the environment variable
 .Ev MANPAGER
-will be used instead of the standard pagination program,
-.Xr more 1 .
+is used instead of the standard pagination program,
+.Xr more 1 ;
+see
+.Xr man 1
+for details.
+Only used if
+.Fl a
+or
+.Fl l
+is specified.
 .It Ev PAGER
 Specifies the pagination program to use when
 .Ev MANPAGER
@@ -610,7 +628,12 @@ is not defined.
 If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
 .Xr more 1
 .Fl s
-will be used.
+is used.
+Only used if
+.Fl a
+or
+.Fl l
+is specified.
 .El
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 The
@@ -908,6 +931,14 @@ 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.