From 8f17d21390b8122b355ba341e0e8c9817d7a4b7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 17:58:37 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 manual/custom.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/manual/custom.py b/manual/custom.py
index 9359e7d244..6086748710 100644
--- a/manual/custom.py
+++ b/manual/custom.py
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ def render_options(cmd, groups, options_header=True, add_program=True, header_le
 
 
 def mark_options(raw):
-    raw = re.sub(r'(\s+)--(\s+)', r'\1``--``\2', raw)
+    raw = re.sub(r'(\s+)--(\s+)', ur'\1-\u200b-\2', raw)
 
     def sub(m):
         opt = m.group()