Many pages: Use \[en] instead of \(en

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

24 files changed, 72 insertions, 72 deletions

diff --git a/man1/time.1 b/man1/time.1
index f6d9cb5a1..ac4351f63 100644
--- a/man1/time.1
+++ b/man1/time.1
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ was invoked, the exit status is that of
 Otherwise, it is 127 if
 .I command
 could not be found, 126 if it could be found but could not be invoked,
-and some other nonzero value (1\(en125) if something else went wrong.
+and some other nonzero value (1\[en]125) if something else went wrong.
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 The variables
 .BR LANG ,
diff --git a/man2/_syscall.2 b/man2/_syscall.2
index cb4e456ac..efb7e802d 100644
--- a/man2/_syscall.2
+++ b/man2/_syscall.2
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ They have the form:
 where
 .IP
 .I X
-is 0\(en6, which are the number of arguments taken by the
+is 0\[en]6, which are the number of arguments taken by the
 system call
 .IP
 .I type
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 579a6e112..9c3c229d5 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ The descriptions of the following files in
 and
 .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps .
 .PP
-B.O. Gallmeister, POSIX.4, O'Reilly, pp. 128\(en129 and 389\(en391.
+B.O. Gallmeister, POSIX.4, O'Reilly, pp. 128\[en]129 and 389\[en]391.
 .\"
 .\" Repeat after me: private read-only mappings are 100% equivalent to
 .\" shared read-only mappings. No ifs, buts, or maybes. -- Linus
diff --git a/man2/msync.2 b/man2/msync.2
index b4c339e6d..e650f7988 100644
--- a/man2/msync.2
+++ b/man2/msync.2
@@ -135,4 +135,4 @@ in
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR mmap (2)
 .PP
-B.O. Gallmeister, POSIX.4, O'Reilly, pp. 128\(en129 and 389\(en391.
+B.O. Gallmeister, POSIX.4, O'Reilly, pp. 128\[en]129 and 389\[en]391.
diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index e331d3006..9582a07c6 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -3615,7 +3615,7 @@ For example, the file
 .I event
 may contain the value
 .I config1:1,6\-10,44
-which indicates that event is an attribute that occupies bits 1,6\(en10, and 44
+which indicates that event is an attribute that occupies bits 1,6\[en]10, and 44
 of
 .IR perf_event_attr::config1 .
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/syslog.2 b/man2/syslog.2
index 1459ac0f9..09c086f18 100644
--- a/man2/syslog.2
+++ b/man2/syslog.2
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ and to 15 in case
 of a kernel fault (the 10 and 15 are just silly, and equivalent to 8).
 The value of
 .I console_loglevel
-can be set (to a value in the range 1\(en8) by a
+can be set (to a value in the range 1\[en]8) by a
 .BR syslog ()
 call with a
 .I type
diff --git a/man3/fmtmsg.3 b/man3/fmtmsg.3
index ee118874a..9eb3484a4 100644
--- a/man3/fmtmsg.3
+++ b/man3/fmtmsg.3
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ severity-keyword,level,printstring
 then
 .BR fmtmsg ()
 will also accept the indicated values for the level (in addition to
-the standard levels 0\(en4), and use the indicated printstring when
+the standard levels 0\[en]4), and use the indicated printstring when
 such a level occurs.
 .PP
 The severity-keyword part is not used by
diff --git a/man3/getnameinfo.3 b/man3/getnameinfo.3
index ca2b47d41..5591b2c34 100644
--- a/man3/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/man3/getnameinfo.3
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ If set, then an error is returned if the hostname cannot be determined.
 .B NI_DGRAM
 If set, then the service is datagram (UDP) based rather than
 stream (TCP) based.
-This is required for the few ports (512\(en514)
+This is required for the few ports (512\[en]514)
 that have different services for UDP and TCP.
 .TP
 .B NI_NOFQDN
diff --git a/man3/gsignal.3 b/man3/gsignal.3
index 0a3eddb53..d6450ec39 100644
--- a/man3/gsignal.3
+++ b/man3/gsignal.3
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ the action function with argument
 and returns the value returned by that function.
 The range of possible values
 .I signum
-varies (often 1\(en15 or 1\(en17).
+varies (often 1\[en]15 or 1\[en]17).
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).
diff --git a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
index 36fcb09f7..c684c8a26 100644
--- a/man3/nl_langinfo.3
+++ b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ for alternative representation of a time in a locale-specific way
 .RB ( %EX
 conversion specification).
 .TP
-.BR DAY_ "{1\(en7} (LC_TIME)"
+.BR DAY_ "{1\[en]7} (LC_TIME)"
 Return name of the \fIn\fP-th day of the week.
 [Warning: this follows
 the US convention DAY_1 = Sunday, not the international convention
@@ -208,21 +208,21 @@ the US convention DAY_1 = Sunday, not the international convention
 .BR strftime (3)
 conversion specification.)
 .TP
-.BR ABDAY_ "{1\(en7} (LC_TIME)"
+.BR ABDAY_ "{1\[en]7} (LC_TIME)"
 Return abbreviated name of the \fIn\fP-th day of the week.
 (Used in
 .B %a
 .BR strftime (3)
 conversion specification.)
 .TP
-.BR MON_ "{1\(en12} (LC_TIME)"
+.BR MON_ "{1\[en]12} (LC_TIME)"
 Return name of the \fIn\fP-th month.
 (Used in
 .B %B
 .BR strftime (3)
 conversion specification.)
 .TP
-.BR ABMON_ "{1\(en12} (LC_TIME)"
+.BR ABMON_ "{1\[en]12} (LC_TIME)"
 Return abbreviated name of the \fIn\fP-th month.
 (Used in
 .B %b
diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3
index 9b02af008..af5ef5ce9 100644
--- a/man3/strftime.3
+++ b/man3/strftime.3
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The abbreviated name of the day of the week according to the current locale.
 (The specific names used in the current locale can be obtained by calling
 .BR nl_langinfo (3)
 with
-.BR ABDAY_ { 1 \(en 7 }
+.BR ABDAY_ { 1 \[en] 7 }
 as an argument.)
 .TP
 .B %A
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ The full name of the day of the week according to the current locale.
 (The specific names used in the current locale can be obtained by calling
 .BR nl_langinfo (3)
 with
-.BR DAY_ { 1 \(en 7 }
+.BR DAY_ { 1 \[en] 7 }
 as an argument.)
 .TP
 .B %b
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The abbreviated month name according to the current locale.
 (The specific names used in the current locale can be obtained by calling
 .BR nl_langinfo (3)
 with
-.BR ABMON_ { 1 \(en 12 }
+.BR ABMON_ { 1 \[en] 12 }
 as an argument.)
 .TP
 .B %B
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ The full month name according to the current locale.
 (The specific names used in the current locale can be obtained by calling
 .BR nl_langinfo (3)
 with
-.BR MON_ { 1 \(en 12 }
+.BR MON_ { 1 \[en] 12 }
 as an argument.)
 .TP
 .B %c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ and
 .B %g
 Like
 .BR %G ,
-but without century, that is, with a 2-digit year (00\(en99). (TZ)
+but without century, that is, with a 2-digit year (00\[en]99). (TZ)
 (Calculated from
 .IR tm_year ,
 .IR tm_yday ,
diff --git a/man3/strptime.3 b/man3/strptime.3
index 9c3458118..d470d726c 100644
--- a/man3/strptime.3
+++ b/man3/strptime.3
@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ in abbreviated form or the full name.
 The date and time representation for the current locale.
 .TP
 .B %C
-The century number (0\(en99).
+The century number (0\[en]99).
 .TP
 .BR %d " or " %e
-The day of month (1\(en31).
+The day of month (1\[en]31).
 .TP
 .B %D
 Equivalent to
@@ -108,19 +108,19 @@ The ISO 8601 standard format is
 .BR %Y\-%m\-%d .)
 .TP
 .B %H
-The hour (0\(en23).
+The hour (0\[en]23).
 .TP
 .B %I
-The hour on a 12-hour clock (1\(en12).
+The hour on a 12-hour clock (1\[en]12).
 .TP
 .B %j
-The day number in the year (1\(en366).
+The day number in the year (1\[en]366).
 .TP
 .B %m
-The month number (1\(en12).
+The month number (1\[en]12).
 .TP
 .B %M
-The minute (0\(en59).
+The minute (0\[en]59).
 .TP
 .B %n
 Arbitrary whitespace.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Equivalent to
 .BR %H:%M .
 .TP
 .B %S
-The second (0\(en60; 60 may occur for leap seconds;
+The second (0\[en]60; 60 may occur for leap seconds;
 earlier also 61 was allowed).
 .TP
 .B %t
@@ -156,14 +156,14 @@ Equivalent to
 .BR %H:%M:%S .
 .TP
 .B %U
-The week number with Sunday the first day of the week (0\(en53).
+The week number with Sunday the first day of the week (0\[en]53).
 The first Sunday of January is the first day of week 1.
 .TP
 .B %w
-The ordinal number of the day of the week (0\(en6), with Sunday = 0.
+The ordinal number of the day of the week (0\[en]6), with Sunday = 0.
 .TP
 .B %W
-The week number with Monday the first day of the week (0\(en53).
+The week number with Monday the first day of the week (0\[en]53).
 The first Monday of January is the first day of week 1.
 .TP
 .B %x
@@ -173,10 +173,10 @@ The date, using the locale's date format.
 The time, using the locale's time format.
 .TP
 .B %y
-The year within century (0\(en99).
-When a century is not otherwise specified, values in the range 69\(en99 refer
-to years in the twentieth century (1969\(en1999); values in the
-range 00\(en68 refer to years in the twenty-first century (2000\(en2068).
+The year within century (0\[en]99).
+When a century is not otherwise specified, values in the range 69\[en]99 refer
+to years in the twentieth century (1969\[en]1999); values in the
+range 00\[en]68 refer to years in the twenty-first century (2000\[en]2068).
 .TP
 .B %Y
 The year, including century (for example, 1991).
@@ -312,9 +312,9 @@ field if any of the year, month, or day elements changed.
 The \[aq]y\[aq] (year in century) specification is taken to specify a year
 .\" in the 20th century by libc4 and libc5.
 .\" It is taken to be a year
-in the range 1950\(en2049 by glibc 2.0.
+in the range 1950\[en]2049 by glibc 2.0.
 It is taken to be a year in
-1969\(en2068 since glibc 2.1.
+1969\[en]2068 since glibc 2.1.
 .\" In libc4 and libc5 the code for %I is broken (fixed in glibc;
 .\" %OI was fixed in glibc 2.2.4).
 .SS glibc notes
@@ -334,17 +334,17 @@ the ISO 8601 date format.
 .TP
 .B %g
 The year corresponding to the ISO week number, but without the century
-(0\(en99).
+(0\[en]99).
 .TP
 .B %G
 The year corresponding to the ISO week number.
 (For example, 1991.)
 .TP
 .B %u
-The day of the week as a decimal number (1\(en7, where Monday = 1).
+The day of the week as a decimal number (1\[en]7, where Monday = 1).
 .TP
 .B %V
-The ISO 8601:1988 week number as a decimal number (1\(en53).
+The ISO 8601:1988 week number as a decimal number (1\[en]53).
 If the week (starting on Monday) containing 1 January has four or more days
 in the new year, then it is considered week 1.
 Otherwise, it is the last week
diff --git a/man4/console_codes.4 b/man4/console_codes.4
index 1425ff266..3780aac8e 100644
--- a/man4/console_codes.4
+++ b/man4/console_codes.4
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ according to the mapping table) it has one of the 14 codes
 1b (ESC), 7f (DEL).
 One can set a "display control characters" mode (see below),
 and allow 07, 09, 0b, 18, 1a, 7f to be displayed as glyphs.
-On the other hand, in UTF-8 mode all codes 00\(en1f are regarded
+On the other hand, in UTF-8 mode all codes 00\[en]1f are regarded
 as control characters, regardless of any "display control characters"
 mode.
 .PP
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ T}
 ESC ] R		Reset palette.
 ESC ] P		T{
 Set palette, with parameter given in 7 hexadecimal digits \fInrrggbb\fP after
-the final P. Here \fIn\fP is the color (0\(en15), and \fIrrggbb\fP indicates
-the red/green/blue values (0\(en255).
+the final P. Here \fIn\fP is the color (0\[en]15), and \fIrrggbb\fP indicates
+the red/green/blue values (0\[en]255).
 T}
 .TE
 .ad
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ The following sequences are neither ECMA-48 nor native VT102.
 They are native to the Linux console driver.
 Colors are in SGR parameters:
 0 = black, 1 = red, 2 = green, 3 = brown, 4 = blue, 5 = magenta, 6 =
-cyan, 7 = white; 8\(en15 = bright versions of 0\(en7.
+cyan, 7 = white; 8\[en]15 = bright versions of 0\[en]7.
 .TS
 l lx.
 ESC [ 1 ; \fIn\fP ]	T{
diff --git a/man4/hd.4 b/man4/hd.4
index fbbecbb9c..9b3761ee9 100644
--- a/man4/hd.4
+++ b/man4/hd.4
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The first form,
 Partition numbers are assigned in the order the partitions
 are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions
 get a number.
-However, partition numbers 1\(en4 are given to the
+However, partition numbers 1\[en]4 are given to the
 four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions),
 regardless of whether they are unused or extended.
 Thus, the first logical partition will be
diff --git a/man4/lp.4 b/man4/lp.4
index 23a149dec..d472b7cbd 100644
--- a/man4/lp.4
+++ b/man4/lp.4
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ lp \- line printer devices
 .B #include <linux/lp.h>
 .fi
 .SH CONFIGURATION
-\fBlp\fP[0\(en2] are character devices for the parallel line printers;
-they have major number 6 and minor number 0\(en2.
+\fBlp\fP[0\[en]2] are character devices for the parallel line printers;
+they have major number 6 and minor number 0\[en]2.
 The minor numbers
 correspond to the printer port base addresses 0x03bc, 0x0378, and 0x0278.
 Usually they have mode 220 and are owned by user
diff --git a/man4/sd.4 b/man4/sd.4
index 691757e29..98be49ddc 100644
--- a/man4/sd.4
+++ b/man4/sd.4
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ is as follows:
 .IP \(bu 3
 partition 0 is the whole drive
 .IP \(bu
-partitions 1\(en4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
+partitions 1\[en]4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
 .IP \(bu
-partitions 5\(en8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
+partitions 5\[en]8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
 .PP
 For example,
 .I /dev/sda
diff --git a/man4/sk98lin.4 b/man4/sk98lin.4
index 8a510d3e4..dc971e8c9 100644
--- a/man4/sk98lin.4
+++ b/man4/sk98lin.4
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ Interrupt moderation should be used when the driver has to
 handle one or more interfaces with a high network load,
 which\(emas a consequence\(emleads also to a high CPU utilization.
 When moderation is applied in such high network load situations,
-CPU load might be reduced by 20\(en30% on slow computers.
+CPU load might be reduced by 20\[en]30% on slow computers.
 .IP
 Note that the drawback of using interrupt moderation is an increase of
 the round-trip-time (RTT), due to the queuing and serving of
diff --git a/man4/st.4 b/man4/st.4
index dc8621e39..b38711f53 100644
--- a/man4/st.4
+++ b/man4/st.4
@@ -656,12 +656,12 @@ If the value is zero, the cleaning
 bit is always zero.
 If the value is one, the TapeAlert data defined
 in the SCSI-3 standard is used (not yet implemented).
-Values 2\(en17 are
+Values 2\[en]17 are
 reserved.
 If the lowest eight bits are >= 18, bits from the extended
 sense data are used.
-The bits 9\(en16 specify a mask to select the bits
-to look at and the bits 17\(en23 specify the bit pattern to look for.
+The bits 9\[en]16 specify a mask to select the bits
+to look at and the bits 17\[en]23 specify the bit pattern to look for.
 If the bit pattern is zero, one or more bits under the mask indicate
 the cleaning request.
 If the pattern is nonzero, the pattern must match
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index ccf2d1a2e..0284d2624 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ If set, the page is in swap space
 61 (since Linux 3.5)
 The page is a file-mapped page or a shared anonymous page.
 .TP
-60\(en58 (since Linux 3.11)
+60\[en]58 (since Linux 3.11)
 Zero
 .\" Not quite true; see commit 541c237c0923f567c9c4cabb8a81635baadc713f
 .TP
@@ -1792,17 +1792,17 @@ PTE is soft-dirty
 (see the kernel source file
 .IR Documentation/admin\-guide/mm/soft\-dirty.rst ).
 .TP
-54\(en0
+54\[en]0
 If the page is present in RAM (bit 63), then these bits
 provide the page frame number, which can be used to index
 .I /proc/kpageflags
 and
 .IR /proc/kpagecount .
 If the page is present in swap (bit 62),
-then bits 4\(en0 give the swap type, and bits 54\(en5 encode the swap offset.
+then bits 4\[en]0 give the swap type, and bits 54\[en]5 encode the swap offset.
 .RE
 .IP
-Before Linux 3.11, bits 60\(en55 were
+Before Linux 3.11, bits 60\[en]55 were
 used to encode the base-2 log of the page size.
 .IP
 To employ
@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@ file is present only if the
 .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 kernel configuration option is enabled.
 .TP
-.IR /proc/ksyms " (Linux 1.1.23\(en2.5.47)"
+.IR /proc/ksyms " (Linux 1.1.23\[en]2.5.47)"
 See
 .IR /proc/kallsyms .
 .TP
@@ -4582,7 +4582,7 @@ and the "free file handles" value is always zero.
 .TP
 .IR /proc/sys/fs/inode\-max " (only present until Linux 2.2)"
 This file contains the maximum number of in-memory inodes.
-This value should be 3\(en4 times larger
+This value should be 3\[en]4 times larger
 than the value in
 .IR file\-max ,
 since \fIstdin\fP, \fIstdout\fP
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index ff74e8d1b..7a8f24dcf 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ A symbolic specification has the form
 .IR /dev/XXYN ,
 where XX designates
 the device type (e.g., 'hd' for ST-506 compatible hard disk, with Y in
-\&'a'\(en'd'; 'sd' for SCSI compatible disk, with Y in 'a'\(en'e'),
+\&'a'\[en]'d'; 'sd' for SCSI compatible disk, with Y in 'a'\[en]'e'),
 Y the driver letter or
 number, and N the number (in decimal) of the partition on this device.
 .IP
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ for older kernels) in the Linux kernel source.
 .B "IDE Disk/CD-ROM Driver Parameters"
 The IDE driver accepts a number of parameters, which range from disk
 geometry specifications, to support for broken controller chips.
-Drive-specific options are specified by using 'hdX=' with X in 'a'\(en'h'.
+Drive-specific options are specified by using 'hdX=' with X in 'a'\[en]'h'.
 .IP
 Non-drive-specific options are specified with the prefix 'hd='.
 Note that using a drive-specific prefix for a non-drive-specific option
diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
index ea160bc5d..25896e510 100644
--- a/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man7/charsets.7
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ still renders properly on modern UTF-8 using systems.
 .SS ISO 8859
 ISO 8859 is a series of 15 8-bit character sets, all of which have ASCII
 in their low (7-bit) half, invisible control characters in positions
-128 to 159, and 96 fixed-width graphics in positions 160\(en255.
+128 to 159, and 96 fixed-width graphics in positions 160\[en]255.
 .PP
 Of these, the most important is ISO 8859-1
 ("Latin Alphabet No. 1" / Latin-1).
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Chinese.
 (Big5 is both a character set and an encoding.)
 It is a superset of ASCII.
 Non-ASCII characters are expressed in two bytes.
-Bytes 0xa1\(en0xfe are used as leading bytes for two-byte characters.
+Bytes 0xa1\[en]0xfe are used as leading bytes for two-byte characters.
 Big5 and its extension were widely used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
 It is not ISO 2022 compliant.
 .\" Thanks to Tomohiro KUBOTA for the following sections about
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ JIS X 0208 is a Japanese national standard character set.
 Though there are some more Japanese national standard character sets (like
 JIS X 0201, JIS X 0212, and JIS X 0213), this is the most important one.
 Characters are mapped into a 94x94 two-byte matrix,
-whose each byte is in the range 0x21\(en0x7e.
+whose each byte is in the range 0x21\[en]0x7e.
 Note that JIS X 0208 is a character set, not an encoding.
 This means that JIS X 0208
 itself is not used for expressing text data.
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ character set for codes with high bit one (initially G1).
 Each graphic character set has 94 or 96 characters, and is
 essentially a 7-bit character set.
 It uses codes either
-040\(en0177 (041\(en0176) or 0240\(en0377 (0241\(en0376).
-G0 always has size 94 and uses codes 041\(en0176.
+040\[en]0177 (041\[en]0176) or 0240\[en]0377 (0241\[en]0376).
+G0 always has size 94 and uses codes 041\[en]0176.
 .PP
 Switching between character sets is done using the shift functions
 \fB\(haN\fP (SO or LS1), \fB\(haO\fP (SI or LS0), ESC n (LS2), ESC o (LS3),
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ are equivalent to ESC \- xx, ESC . xx, ESC / xx, respectively.
 TIS-620 is a Thai national standard character set and a superset
 of ASCII.
 In the same fashion as the ISO 8859 series, Thai characters are mapped into
-0xa1\(en0xfe.
+0xa1\[en]0xfe.
 .SS Unicode
 Unicode (ISO 10646) is a standard which aims to unambiguously represent
 every character in every human language.
diff --git a/man7/cpuset.7 b/man7/cpuset.7
index b90a9f254..4d3132dc2 100644
--- a/man7/cpuset.7
+++ b/man7/cpuset.7
@@ -1400,14 +1400,14 @@ perform the following steps.
 .IP (1) 5
 Let's say we want to move the job in cpuset
 .I alpha
-(CPUs 4\(en7 and memory nodes 2\(en3) to a new cpuset
+(CPUs 4\[en]7 and memory nodes 2\[en]3) to a new cpuset
 .I beta
-(CPUs 16\(en19 and memory nodes 8\(en9).
+(CPUs 16\[en]19 and memory nodes 8\[en]9).
 .IP (2)
 First create the new cpuset
 .IR beta .
 .IP (3)
-Then allow CPUs 16\(en19 and memory nodes 8\(en9 in
+Then allow CPUs 16\[en]19 and memory nodes 8\[en]9 in
 .IR beta .
 .IP (4)
 Then enable
@@ -1439,8 +1439,8 @@ The above should move any processes in
 .I alpha
 to
 .IR beta ,
-and any memory held by these processes on memory nodes 2\(en3 to memory
-nodes 8\(en9, respectively.
+and any memory held by these processes on memory nodes 2\[en]3 to memory
+nodes 8\[en]9, respectively.
 .PP
 Notice that the last step of the above sequence did not do:
 .PP
diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index 67bea5d6a..2e1a605e1 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ can be used to transform the internal
 characters and strings into the system character encoding and back
 and
 .BR wcwidth (3)
-tells how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the
+tells how many positions (0\[en]2) the cursor is advanced by the
 output of a character.
 .SS Private Use Areas (PUA)
 In the Basic Multilingual Plane,
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 01e190718..797481cac 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ binary representation, most significant bit first (big-endian).
 Only the shortest possible multibyte sequence
 which can represent the code number of the character can be used.
 .PP
-The UCS code values 0xd800\(en0xdfff (UTF-16 surrogates) as well as 0xfffe and
+The UCS code values 0xd800\[en]0xdfff (UTF-16 surrogates) as well as 0xfffe and
 0xffff (UCS noncharacters) should not appear in conforming UTF-8 streams.
 According to RFC 3629 no point above U+10FFFF should be used,
 which limits characters to four bytes.