* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:28:21:06:03+0100] scribed: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) > > in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in > > text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens > > to bare minus signs; if they are written as "\-", it works fine. Try, > > for example, "man jed" with an UTF-8 locale. > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Does it work better for anyone else? Or is > > it a bug in these manual pages, or perhaps in man-db or groff? > > (a) Please see /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian; (b) it shouldn't > actually garble them, merely display Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS, so what > versions of man-db, groff, your pager, and your terminal emulator are > you using?
Interesting ;>
# for mds in man-db groff less xterm
> do
> apt-show-versions $mds
> done
man-db/testing uptodate 2.4.2-13
groff/testing uptodate 1.18.1-15
less/testing uptodate 381-3
xterm/testing uptodate 4.2.1-12.1
I have been having same problem, and opened Bug#235046 against xterm.
There I was told that this is a font problem; although, changing to the
recommended fonts did *not* resolve my problems.
Also, now I find that this problem affects more than just hyphens (-);
but, also characters such as (`) (e.g., man apt-show-versions).
Yes, I know that _somehow_ it should be possible to get to xterm
v4.3.0-7; but, the dependencies are quite daunting on this box ;<
What do you think?
--
Best Regards,
mds
mds resource
877.596.8237
-
Dare to fix things before they break . . .
-
Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much
we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . .
--
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
