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

From: Frederick B. Henry Jr. (fbhjr_at_fhase.net)
Date: 09/30/04

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    On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 09:39:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

    > In an UTF-8 sequence, you shouldn't have a ^P; this is strange.
    > Now, Debian doesn't use the non-ASCII hyphen to make searching in
    > man pages easier (see /etc/groff/man.local). So, this seems to be
    > a bug in the procmailrc page (or perhaps the non-ASCII hyphen is
    > normal in this special context).
    >
    > On my machine, I don't see any problem, perhaps because I have
    > uncommented the last two lines of
    >
    > . \" Many UTF-8 man pages use "-" instead of "\-" for dashes such as those
    > . \" in command-line options. This is a bug in those pages, but if you want
    > . \" all hyphens to be rendered as the ASCII-compatible HYPHEN-MINUS
    > . \" anyway, then uncomment this.
    > . \" if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
    > . \" char - \N'45'
    >

    After uncommenting the above last two lines in both /etc/groff/man.local
    and /etc/groff/mdoc.local, I still get the strange characters, which appear
    not to be limited to the hyphen issue. "Man netstat," for example, at the
    very top of the page:

            Linux Programmerâ@~^Ys Manual

    in aterm as well as uxterm. My /etc/app-defaults/XTerm has the same font
    config lines as yours. Again, this is in *any* pager and with many man
    pages that I have tested.

    Another solution which someone was kind enough to send me was to set LC_ALL
    to "C" before every invocation of "man", which works, but seems kludgy. I
    suppose if man is ultimately incapable of handling a utf-8 locale then that
    may have to be the solution (?). (BTW, in my locale output the only var
    unset is LC_ALL -- all the others are set to en_US.UTF-8)

    Cheers,

    Fred Henry, Jr. 

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