Dear friends, I am using less on a UTF-8 Redhat Linux 7.3 machine. I am having troubles with using man, because of the overstiking is not handled properly. I read the Unicode HOWTO and compiled less (358) with the patch suggested by http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-05/msg00023.html and the situation improved. However it is not completely OK, as you may easily see if you hit H (for Help) while viewing a manual page: italicized words which contain double letters are badly displayed. For example, italicized "pattern" is displayed as "patern", when the "pa" and "ern" and underlined, and the "t" is bold, instead of being displayed as underlined "tt". Withe the word "letter" it is even worse" the middle "tt" dispears completely" and you get "ler" with a bold "e". Do any of you knows about the existance of a better patch? I looked at the beta version of less (377?), but it didn't adress this bug at all IMHO. Since I beleive you are experienced with both LINUX and UTF-8, I hope that you might be of help.
Best, Zvi. -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-227607 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8324654 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) Monday, 9 Sivan 5762, 20 May 2002, 12:05PM -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
