[gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages

[gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages

[Ben Beuchler]

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?

-Ben


-- 
Ben Beuchler                                            There is no spoon.
insyte@emt-p.org                                             -- The Matrix

Re: [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages

[Daniel Robbins]

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.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages

[Ben Beuchler]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:44:46AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> 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.

Actually, upgrading the man ebuild seems to have fixed it completely, so it
works even WITHOUT the $LESSCHARSET.

-Ben