[Bug 246656] Unicode asterisks in ctime(3) may not render correctly

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246656

--- Comment #2 from Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> ---
Hmm, roff(7):

   Special Characters
     Special characters are used to encode special glyphs ...
     Sequences begin with the escape character ‘\’ followed by
     either an open-parenthesis ‘(’ for two-character sequences...

     Examples:
           \(em    Two-letter em dash escape.
...
     \(cc    Special Characters with two-letter names, see mandoc_char(7).


I guess that explains \(**.

mandoc_char(7):
     Mathematical:
           Input            Rendered    Description
...
           \(**             ∗           asterisk

Ok, so \(** is just wrong here.  C comments are not some mathematical formula.

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