Add --ascii-tree for translating UTF-8 tree(1) output to ASCII

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cli/cli/man.cxx b/cli/cli/man.cxx
index df703e8..d446b2a 100644
--- a/cli/cli/man.cxx
+++ b/cli/cli/man.cxx
@@ -91,13 +91,16 @@ namespace
       // n > 2 - arg string, short string, long string
       //
       size_t n (ds.size ());
-      const string& d (
+      string d (
         n == 1
         ? (cd_ == cd_short ? first_sentence (ds[0]) : ds[0])
         : (n == 2
            ? (cd_ == cd_short ? first_sentence (ds[1]) : ds[1])
            : ds[cd_ == cd_short ? 1 : 2]));
 
+      if (options.ascii_tree ())
+        preprocess_ascii_tree (d);
+
       std::set<string> arg_set;
       if (n > 1)
         translate_arg (ds[0], arg_set);
@@ -149,6 +152,8 @@ namespace
 
       if (type != "bool" || doc.size () >= 3)
       {
+        // Note: we naturally assume this doesn't need --ascii-tree treatment.
+        //
         string s (
           translate_arg (
             doc.size () > 0 ? doc[0] : string ("<arg>"), arg_set));
@@ -174,6 +179,9 @@ namespace
           d = (cd_ == cd_short ? first_sentence (doc[1]) : doc[1]);
       }
 
+      if (options.ascii_tree ())
+        preprocess_ascii_tree (d);
+
       // Format the documentation string.
       //
       d = format (o.scope (), translate (d, arg_set), false);