Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:43:40 +0200
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    On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr.
    <fbhjr@fhase.net> wrote:
    > Greetings,
    >
    > Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
    > as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
    > Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
    >
    > xterm -u8 -fn \
    > '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
    >
    > It displays the "UTF-8-demo.txt" file nicely, with the sole exception of
    > Amharic Ethiopian, which is displayed as outline boxes per character.
    >
    > Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
    > whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
    > strange chars, e.g.:
    >
    > man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields:
    >
    > "delivering and nonā@~^Pdelivering recipes.."

    [...]

    Can "most" (your pager) support UTF8? Have you tried to use "less" instead?

    Andrea

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