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

From: Frederick B. Henry Jr. (fbhjr_at_fhase.net)
Date: 10/02/04

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    On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:43:08 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:

    > If you type
    >
    > PAGER=cat man cat
    >
    > do you see a coypright symbol in the "Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software
    > Foundation, Inc." line (i.e., in the place where I have written "(C)"
    > here)? If you type
    >
    > printf \\302\\251\\n
    >
    > do you see a copyright symbol? If you type
    >
    > printf \\342\\200\\220\\n
    >
    > do you see a small hyphen (i.e. something somewhat smaller than what you
    > get when you hit the - key)?
    >
    > If your answer to the second and third question is "yes", try to pipe the
    > output of each command to a pager, e.g.
    >
    > printf \\342\\200\\220\\n | less
    >
    > In place of "less", try each pager which you also tried with "man".

    If I use the above commands in uxterm, all is well. I see the copyright
    symbol and the small hyphen. Of course, aterm is a no go, but that is not
    a surprise.

    So I tried the following pagers: cat, less, more, most. (I was enjoying
    "most" for the colorization....)

    It ultimately does seem to be a PAGER problem, since with every pager but
    "most", when used in a uxterm, the man pages render perfectly well with no
    odd symbols. It seems the culprit was "most."

    As a final minor issue, not critical for me by any means, when I use a
    working pager like less to view the UTF-8-demon.txt file, the only text
    that gives a problem (boxes) is Amharic Ethiopian.

    Thank you, as well as the other respondents, for all your patient
    assistance.

    Cheers,

    Fred Henry, Jr. 

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