On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:53:16AM -0500, Edward H Trager wrote: > Being also previously unacquainted with "lv", I also just installed "lv" > and tried running it inside "mlterm" with LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 on a data > file containing place names in many scripts (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, > Greek, Russian, Arabic, etc.) and it all looks like garbage for me too! > > So for me neither "less" nor "lv" works (on my SuSE 7.2 installation). > Of course, "vim" works just fine : the only problem with "vim" > is that it won't read from stdin the way "less" does. "more" also works > just fine, so I wonder what the problem with "less" is?
"more" works fine for me--but I don't think it cares about character widths at all. (It doesn't support horizontal scrolling.) Less works for me, except that it doesn't recognize double-width characters, so columns get misaligned when scrolling vertically in text with mixed width characters. It probably has other problems; I didn't test it very hard. Use "en_US.utf-8", not "utf8". -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
