> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:21:29 +0200 > From: Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Using version 4.12.91, when info does not find an Info document and > falls back to a man page, info sometimes puts backslashes in or > before column 78 (seldom in column 79), even though none of the > lines exceed 78 characters.
Are you on a system whose locale specifies some multibyte encoding (e.g., UTF-8)? If so, this could be due to line length miscalculation in those lines which include multibyte sequences that are eventually displayed using less columns than the length of the original multibyte sequence.
