Re: man pages through konqueror

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:01:30 GMT,
Michael C. <mjchappell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:58:27 +0100,
heavytull <heavytull@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
sk8r-365 wrote:

Horton heard a Who named heavytull saying:
man pages cab be seen through konqueror using a # mark and the name of the
man page.
the problem that i notice is the display of double quotes "

it displays '34'

what man under a VT on Konsole shows as:

Section "Device"

Konqueror shows as:

Section '34'Device'34'

No question, so I guess you're "sharing"? Interesting that '34' happens.
Why do you suppose it does? Is it desirable?

Seriously, check the character encoding. I use UTF-8 with my console.
it does same for you?

It does the same for me.

I'm not sure how konqueror parses the man pages, but that is where the
problem lies. You can see that by viewing the html source of the man
page.

I'm guessing they use a custom parser, because if you do a google
search for "man xorg.conf" yo will find many sites appear to have
handled the quotes incorrectly, though others drop the quotes.

The nature of the problem suggests it was a debugging hack that they
forgot to remove, and should be an easy fix. I just filed a bug
report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154890

I'm told it is a duplicate of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147237

This bug appears to have a patch associated with it, but is not marked
as closed. So I assume the patch wasn't applied to the tree, but I'm
not certain. Unfortunately, I don't know how KDE's bug tracking
system works. I assume if the patch resolved the problem and was
applied it would be marked as resolved.

Unfortunately I'm not concerned enough about said bug to download the
source and apply the patch myself. I don't use KDE often, and I
really don't use konqueror.

Michael C.
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