On 2004-09-30 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales), > whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get > strange chars, e.g.: > > man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields: > > "delivering and [EMAIL PROTECTED] recipes.."
In an UTF-8 sequence, you shouldn't have a ^P; this is strange. Now, Debian doesn't use the non-ASCII hyphen to make searching in man pages easier (see /etc/groff/man.local). So, this seems to be a bug in the procmailrc page (or perhaps the non-ASCII hyphen is normal in this special context). On my machine, I don't see any problem, perhaps because I have uncommented the last two lines of . \" Many UTF-8 man pages use "-" instead of "\-" for dashes such as those . \" in command-line options. This is a bug in those pages, but if you want . \" all hyphens to be rendered as the ASCII-compatible HYPHEN-MINUS . \" anyway, then uncomment this. . \" if '\*[.T]'utf8' \ . \" char - \N'45' (more precisely, I copied both files from /etc/groff to $HOME/etc/groff, uncommented these lines and set GROFF_TMAC_PATH to "$HOME/etc/groff"). BTW, I've tried after unsetting GROFF_TMAC_PATH, and this non-ASCII hyphen (shorter than the ASCII one) displays without any problem (in a UXTerm, i.e. XTerm with UTF-8 locales and UTF-8 fonts). > Is there some specific font I should be using? How do I get a clean > man page in an xterm/aterm/rxvt/mlterm with a UTF-8 locale? If you use UXTerm, the fonts are already set up: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm contains *VT100.utf8Fonts.font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font4: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1 -- Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
