diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 81791512..80ceb9ee 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 .ie \n(.g \{\
 .  ds " \(dq
 .  ds ' \(aq
+.  ds en \(en
 .\}
 .el \{\
 .  \" \*" is not usable in macro arguments on AT&T troff.
 .  ds " ""\" two adjacent quotes and no space before this comment
 .  ds ' '
+.  ds en \-
 .\}
 .SH NAME
 find \- search for files in a directory hierarchy
@@ -2684,7 +2686,7 @@ program appeared in Version 5 Unix as part of the
 Programmer's Workbench project and was written by Dick Haight.  Doug
 McIlroy's
 .I A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer's \
-Manual, 1971\(en1986
+Manual, 1971\*(en1986
 provides some additional details; you can read it on-line at
 <https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf>.
 .P
@@ -2855,7 +2857,7 @@ mailing list:
 .RE
 .
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1990\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1990\*(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
diff --git a/locate/locate.1 b/locate/locate.1
index 95f397b3..67fb1331 100644
--- a/locate/locate.1
+++ b/locate/locate.1
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 .\" As a GNU troff extension, \% at the beginning of a word suppresses
 .\" its hyphenation.
 .ie \n(.g \{\
+.  ds en \(en
 .  ds % \%
 .\}
 .el \{\
+.  ds en \-
 .  ds % \" empty
 .\}
 .SH NAME
@@ -349,7 +351,7 @@ mailing list:
 .RE
 .
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1994\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1994\*(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
diff --git a/locate/locatedb.5 b/locate/locatedb.5
index 78ec8678..2fa74766 100644
--- a/locate/locatedb.5
+++ b/locate/locatedb.5
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 .TH LOCATEDB 5 2020-12-27 findutils \" -*- nroff -*-
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.  ds en \(en
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.  ds en \-
+.\}
 .SH NAME
 locatedb \- front-compressed file name database
 .
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ format starts with a 256 byte table containing the 128 most common
 bigrams in the file list.  A bigram is a pair of adjacent bytes.
 Bytes in the database that have the high bit set are indexes (with the
 high bit cleared) into the bigram table.  The bigram and
-offset-differential count coding makes these databases 20\(en25% smaller
+offset-differential count coding makes these databases 20\*(en25% smaller
 than the new format, but makes them not 8-bit clean.  Any byte in a
 file name that is in the ranges used for the special codes is replaced
 in the database by a question mark, which not coincidentally is the
@@ -159,7 +165,7 @@ mailing list:
 .RE
 .
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1994\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1994\*(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
diff --git a/locate/updatedb.1 b/locate/updatedb.1
index e1cea926..6d6f652f 100644
--- a/locate/updatedb.1
+++ b/locate/updatedb.1
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 .TH UPDATEDB 1 2023-11-10 findutils \" -*- nroff -*-
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.  ds en \(en
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.  ds en \-
+.\}
 .SH NAME
 updatedb \- update a file name database
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -140,7 +146,7 @@ mailing list:
 .RE
 .
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1994\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1994\*(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
diff --git a/xargs/xargs.1 b/xargs/xargs.1
index b73589d6..38acf73a 100644
--- a/xargs/xargs.1
+++ b/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 .TH XARGS 1 2024-06-03 findutils \" -*- nroff -*-
+.ie \n(.g \{\
+.  ds en \(en
+.\}
+.el \{\
+.  ds en \-
+.\}
 .SH NAME
 xargs \- build and execute command lines from standard input
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -430,7 +436,7 @@ exits with the following status:
 .IP 0
 if it succeeds
 .IP 123
-if any invocation of the command exited with status 1\(en125
+if any invocation of the command exited with status 1\*(en125
 .IP 124
 if the command exited with status 255
 .IP 125
@@ -585,7 +591,7 @@ mailing list:
 .RE
 .
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1990\(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 1990\*(en2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 .br
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.