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

[Ben Beuchler <insyte@mazer.squad51.net>]

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