:type 'boolean
:group 'woman-formatting)
-(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii nil
- "*If non-nil then preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer.
-Otherwise, non-ASCII characters (that display as ASCII) may remain.
-This is irrelevant unless the buffer is to be saved to a file."
+(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii t
+ "*If non-nil, preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer.
+Otherwise, to save time, some backslashes and spaces may be
+represented differently (as the values of the variables
+`woman-escaped-escape-char' and `woman-unpadded-space-char'
+respectively) so that the buffer content is strictly wrong even though
+it should display correctly. This should be irrelevant unless the
+buffer text is searched, copied or saved to a file."
+ ;; This option should probably be removed!
:type 'boolean
:group 'woman-formatting)