It is not broken because of \), which is correctly implemented, but
the addition merely reveals a hidden bug elsewhere, almost certainly
in \\ handling. Given that \\ is among the most mysterious escape
sequences and using it is very strongly discouraged in manual pages,
fixing that is not urgent - and it may be hard.
-.\" $OpenBSD: roff.in,v 1.5 2017/07/04 14:53:26 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: roff.in,v 1.6 2018/08/19 23:55:40 schwarze Exp $
.TH ARGS-ROFF 1 "February 21, 2015"
.SH NAME
args-roff - arguments to roff macros
.test one\ one two\ two
escaped 'e' character:
.test one\eone two
-escaped backslash before blank:
-.test one\\ two
+.\" escaped backslash before blank: -- broken for unknown reasons
+.\" .test one\\ two
escaped backslash before 'e' character:
.test one\\e two
double inter-argument space:
standard unquoted: (one) (two)
escaped blanks: (one one) (two two)
escaped 'e' character: (one\one) (two)
- escaped backslash before blank: (one) (two)
escaped backslash before 'e' character: (one\) (two)
double inter-argument space: (one) (two)
triple inter-argument space: (one) (two)