Fwd: man Renders ugly mans

[Charles Darwin]

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From: Charles Darwin <darwinsker...@gmail.com>
Date: January 25, 2009 8:20:54 AM EST (CA)
To: macports.us...@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: man Renders ugly mans

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From: Charles Darwin <darwinsker...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: man Renders ugly mans
To: Federico Lucifredi <flucifr...@acm.org>



On 19-Jan-09, at 11:39 PM, Federico Lucifredi wrote:

Hello...Charles?

Charles Darwin wrote:

-bash-3.2$ uname -v && which man && man -v && less -V
Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008;
root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
/usr/bin/man
man, version 1.6f

less 418

Any idea?

Absolutely. Bad codepage.

can you run the following:

echo $LANG
set | grep "LC_"

-bash-3.2$ echo $LANG
en_CA.UTF-8
-bash-3.2$ set | grep "LC_"

I presume you are running "man man" there.

Correct

Are you integrating your own distro?

Yes and No because I am not sure what you mean by distro. I am
compiling on 10.4 and 10.5. On 10.4 I get a nice man page with
printing staring from the top of the screen (very neat). I tried
installing from MacPorts and this ticket was the result (I think
people at MacPort could use your help!)

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/14337

Problem is solved in the sense that I configured this time differently
which if you compare the attached files, I think, shows that the
problem is with one of the Macport installed packages on my systems.
This works both on 10.4 and 10.5.

Thanks and my apologies for the slow reply,

You have to settle on one codepage for locale, set man to
default to it, and make sure the man pages on the system respect the
encoding. On OS-X 10.5, the choice for US English is

LANG=en_US.UTF-8


a distro.


or you importing a new version of man?

Best -F

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I have work in progress to improve automagic detection for exceptions, but that is meant for third parties who ship man pages independently of If you just brought in a newer version of man on an existing downstream distribution, you need to replicate the work the packagers did to set up configuration, and probably apply patches as relevant to the distro .. can you tell me which case are we dealing with here, a bug in the distro

failed.configure-ask
Description: Binary data

worked.configure-ask
Description: Binary data

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