xinglp wrote: > 2012/4/19 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>: >> xinglp wrote: >>> 在 2012年4月11日 下午11:13，Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> 写道： >>>> xinglp wrote: >>>>> There are somethings else in other manpages, I think they are some >>>>> kinds of format. >>>> No, it's ascii, not the more common troff format. That's valid but just >>>> does >>>> not have things like bold available. >>> Yes, I know it. >>> But on a local console (with en_US.utf8 locale), when use man ifup, it >>> display "-" to a "block", like █ >> That doesn't make any sense. The dash characters are 0x2d and utf8 is >> identical >> to ascii for the first 128 characters. >> >> Try setting an environment variable LESSCHARSET=latin1 > > Sorry for long time not response. > > I've tried "LESSCHARSET=latin1 man ifup", it show some things like below. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ifup(8) > NAME > ifup █ <80><90> bring a network interface up > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Also the "mkdir -v aaa" show "mkdir: created directory █aaa█", > other than " mkdir: created directory 'aaa' " > > Everythings is displayed well when through putty, but on a "local > console" it not work well. > > Then, I tried to figure out this. > I note than it show " mkdir: created directory ‘aaa’ " , but not " > mkdir: created directory 'aaa' " > > Show them in hex > mkdir -v aaa|view - -c '%!xxd' > 0000000: 6d6b 6469 723a 2063 7265 6174 6564 2064 mkdir: created d > 0000010: 6972 6563 746f 7279 20e2 8098 6161 61e2 irectory ...aaa. > 0000020: 8099 0a ... > > The single quotes is: > e2 80 98 > e2 80 99 > > The dash character in /usr/share/man/man8/ifdown.8 is 0x2d , > but use man ifup|view - -c '%!xxd' , the dash character is > e2 80 90 > > Then, I think the "local console" can not display those utf8 character. > But I remember in ealier time, my lfs works well of show those character. > > Now, I fix it by this configure file > /etc/sysconfig/console > FONT="lat1-16 -m 8859-1" > UNICODE=yes
I am not familiar with non-US locales. I have no idea why man or less would translate a perfectly good ascii character, like a dash or quote character to something else. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
