On Jan 14, 2008 4:23 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Man.... man pages and groff and all this crap are waaay too complex > for what they do. > > Anyway, here's the deal, and hopefully someone will know a better/more > proper way to do this. > > With the utf8 man page changes (pending, see other email), some UTF-8 > characters come out a bit goofy. I don't know if it is only > en_US.UTF-8 or not. > > The simply fact is that there's like 3 different 'dash' characters in > UTF-8, and the ones displayed are not the ones your keyboard outputs. > So searching for "-S" doesn't work. > > Long story short, adding the following to > /usr/share/groff/site-tmac/man.local fixes this: > > .if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ > . char \- \N'45' > . char - \N'45' > . char ' \N'39' > .. > > Yeah, all those dots are needed... most of those replacements are > gleaned from a SuSe changelog, but they work here. > > Could someone else make this change, or possibly suggest a better way > to do the same thing? What we're doing is telling nroff not to use the > fancy chars and use the same ones the keyboard uses. > > Opinions? Thoughts? Comments? Beer?
Poke poke. Can someone verify this change for me, make sure it breaks nothing? You will need to: * Add the above lines * Make sure LESSCHARSET is unset * Remove -Tlatin1 from the nroff line in /etc/man.conf
