From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages
Date: Sat Sep 8 10:45:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010908104446.E30059@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010908102914.C3885@emt-p.org>; from insyte@emt-p.org on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:29:15AM -0500
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:29:15AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> While talking to some people (chouser) on #gentoo last night, I realized
> that I wasn't the only one seeing weird <AD> characters wherever a
> hyphen was supposed to appear in a man page. After a bit of research we
> found that setting LESSCHARSET=latin1 fixes the problem. Perhaps this
> should be in the baselayout /etc/profile?
Good research, you two! Could you do me a favor and also try tweaking
/etc/man.conf so that all references of -Tlatin1 are changed to -Tascii?
Maybe this will do the trick. I'm not sure what solution is better, but
it seems that if we can fix this problem by correcting man.conf (rather
than adding a special less-specific env var), then that would be the way
to go.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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2001-09-08 10:41 [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages Ben Beuchler
2001-09-08 10:45 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-09-08 13:16 ` Ben Beuchler
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