This issue has been discovered during the investigation of the issue #861.
Man pages generated from markdown sources, contains HYPHEN (text hyphen) characters instead of HYPHEN-MINUS characters (plain text minus).
Consequently, the syntax of the options, such as -v (--version) are wrong. The current man pages of flac and metaflac are misleading : copy and paste the option(s) in the terminal create a syntactically wrong call of the command.