--- a/doc/hg.1.txt	Mon Nov 02 21:47:03 2009 +0100
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt	Mon Nov 02 21:55:59 2009 +0100
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 
 COPYING
 -------
-Copyright \(C) 2005-2009 Matt Mackall.
+Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Matt Mackall.
 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
 Public License version 2.