Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Dave,

> whereas < and > are pretty common for this and no one will bat an eye
> at those in non-UTF-8 contexts.

   ‘The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
    excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
    text documents and protocol fields.’
       — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396, §2.4.3


   ‘The recommendation is that the angle brackets (less than and greater
    than signs) of the ASCII set be used for this purpose.

   ‘...

   ‘Example

   ‘Yes, Jim, I found it under <ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc> but
     you can probably pick it up from <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc>.’
        — https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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