reminder - I have ru_RU.KOI8-R locale
Some man pages are in KOI8. Examples are dd, ls, detectloader etc. These pages
apparently get high bit stripped (due to the fact that nroff sets -Tascii in
this case) resulting in excellent and useful output like
ioeoaiea
oOICOAIIA ls OIAbAIA xUxIAEO ODEOIE xOAE AEAEIIx (IA EAOAIICIx),
DAOAbEOIAIIUE x EIIAIAIIE OOOIEA, A UAOAI xUxIAEO ODEOIE xOAE AEAEIIx,
IAEIANYEEON x EAOAIICAE, DAOAbEOIAIIUE x EIIAIAIIE OOOIEA. aOIE IA
OEAUAII IE IAIICI AEAEIA, OI DI OIIIbAIEA AOCOIAIOII IAUIAbAAOON `.'
(OAEOYEE EAOAIIC). iDAEN -d UAOOAxINAO ls IA ObEOAOO
AOCOIAIOU-EAOAIICE EAOAIICAIE. aOAOO IOIAOAOAOOON OIIOEI AEAEIU,
EIOIOUA IA IAbEIAAOON O `.' EIE xOA AEAEIU, AOIE UAAAIA IDAEN -a.
I can manage to view those by using
LESSCHARSET=latin1 man ...
but it may have more glitches that I did not notice as yet.
RPM manpages apparently are in UTF8. These cannot be viewed at all whatever
LESSCHARSET I try. The only way is to force English that is not that simple
given current manpage structure:
LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_MESSAGES=C man rpm
please, fix.
-andrey
