From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mazer.squad51.net ([216.243.168.40]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15fnZP-0002G2-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2001 13:15:12 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by mazer.squad51.net with local; Sat, 08 Sep 2001 14:15:59 -0500 From: Ben Beuchler To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages Message-ID: <20010908141556.A15539@emt-p.org> References: <20010908102914.C3885@emt-p.org> <20010908104446.E30059@cvs.gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010908104446.E30059@cvs.gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Sep 8 13:16:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:15:59 -0500 X-Archives-Salt: 2b52bdb3-fd41-44d8-97e1-7a27e0a61737 X-Archives-Hash: 29b2623548b83dc85933e6ace07b7874 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 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