Are you just saying you would like someone to look at ticket 14337,
about the problem displaying manpages? If so, I'm not sure how we
would solve the problem; I have no trouble viewing manpages on my
system.
On Jan 25, 2009, at 07:21, Charles Darwin wrote:
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From: Charles Darwin <[email protected]>
Date: January 25, 2009 8:20:54 AM EST (CA)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: man Renders ugly mans
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From: Charles Darwin <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: man Renders ugly mans
To: Federico Lucifredi <[email protected]>
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
I have work in progress to improve automagic detection for
exceptions,
but that is meant for third parties who ship man pages
independently of
a distro.
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
or you importing a new version of man?
Best -F
<failed.configure-ask><worked.configure-ask>
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