Switch asterisk from a (pre ascii) low level roff escape to a normal
ascii asterisk character matching $otherOS. The old roff escape doesn't
render anywhere.
PR: 268421
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Just a few notes given that I don't know significance of one asterisk form over the other:
- NetBSD did not remove/replace the \(** macros, they are still there, e.g. https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/62c785e59d064070166dab5d2a4492055effba89/lib/libm/man/atan2.3#L150
- \(** renders just fine for me and is different from the simple ASCII asterisk so I find the "The old roff escape doesn't render anywhere" assertion doubtful.
- This mathematical asterisk is found in other man pages, and this man page has other mathematical UTF-8 symbols.
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I tested it on 14.2, and the man page has render issues without this patch, see attached screenshot.{F135333051}