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Description
I did this
man curl
Go to the example command lines showing --connect-timeout
. Copy the first example. Paste it into a terminal.
$ curl ‐‐connect‐timeout 20 https://example.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xn--connecttimeout-462hah
man has "helpfully" converted the ascii minus byte code 45 into a unicode hyphen (U+2010).
First reported here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043309 by FC Stegerman
I expected the following
The example to work.
curl/libcurl version
8.2.1 and current master
operating system
Debian unstable x86_64 (up-to-date)
More details
$ man --version
man 2.11.2
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8