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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/mandoc_char.7,v
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retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -p -r1.25 -r1.26
--- mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2009/10/07 14:37:13	1.25
+++ mandoc/mandoc_char.7	2009/10/15 02:42:53	1.26
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.25 2009/10/07 14:37:13 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mandoc_char.7,v 1.26 2009/10/15 02:42:53 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\" 
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 7 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 15 2009 $
 .Dt MANDOC_CHAR 7
 .Os
 .
@@ -76,13 +76,32 @@ Note that each output mode will have a different rende
 characters.  It's guaranteed that each input symbol will correspond to a
 (more or less) meaningful output rendering, regardless the mode.
 .
+.Ss ASCII output
+Formatting documents with ASCII output results in a 7-bit ASCII
+approximation of zero or more characters, for example, the
+.Dq aleph
+character
+.Sq \e(Ah
+will render as
+.Sq N .
+Approximations are a best-effort, and naturally some clarity will be lost.
 .
-.Sh Special Characters
+.Ss HTML output
+The HTML output mode uses decimal-encoded UTF-8 for sequences, for
+example, the
+.Dq aleph
+character
+.Sq \e(Ah
+will render as
+.Sq &#8501; .
+.
+.
+.Sh SPECIAL CHARACTERS
 These are the preferred input symbols for producing special characters.
 .
 .Pp
 Spacing:
-.Bl -compact -offset indent -column 10m 20m
+.Bl -column -compact -offset indent 10m 20m
 .It Em Input Ta Em Description
 .It \e~      Ta non-breaking, non-collapsing space
 .It \e       Ta breaking, non-collapsing n-width space
@@ -95,7 +114,7 @@ Spacing:
 .
 .Pp
 Lines:
-.Bl -compact -offset indent -column 10m 10m 10m
+.Bl -column -compact -offset indent 10m 10m 10m
 .It Em Input Ta Em Rendered Ta Em Description
 .It \e(ba    Ta \(ba        Ta bar
 .It \e(br    Ta \(br        Ta box rule
@@ -108,7 +127,7 @@ Lines:
 .
 .Pp
 Text markers:
-.Bl -compact -offset indent -column 10m 10m 10m
+.Bl -column -compact -offset indent 10m 10m 10m
 .It Em Input Ta Em Rendered Ta Em Description
 .It \e(ci    Ta \(ci        Ta circle
 .It \e(bu    Ta \(bu        Ta bullet
@@ -575,6 +594,19 @@ having no known representation:
 .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1
+.
+.
+.Sh STANDARDS
+.Rs
+.%A The Unicode Consortium
+.%T The Unicode Standard: Worldwide Character Encoding, Version 5.2
+.%D 1991
+.Re
+.Rs
+.%A W3C
+.%T HTML 4.01 Specification
+.%D December, 1999
+.Re
 .
 .
 .Sh AUTHORS