On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:24:49PM +1100, Eduard Westra wrote: > >> If I look in man pages, then with mrxvt I get funny characters instead of > >> what there should be. See attached image. Noticably, these "faults" happen > >> with quotes (single & double), hyphens, asterisks. I'm using the SVN > >> version, configured with > >> "./bootstrap.sh" > >> "./configure --enable-everything --disable-debug --with-term=xterm" > >> "make" > >> "sudo make install" > > > > Hmm. Try converting the man page to text and seeing what these > > characters are: > > > > man -W ls | head -n 1 | groff -mman -Tascii -P -cbu > /tmp/ls.txt > > > > Then Vim the file and see if the characters are anything "funny". > I get a 66 bytes long file which only contains newlines characters (66 > to be precise)...
Hmm. My bad. Try this: 1. Find the ls man file (man -W ls) 2. gunzip/bunzip it, and pipe it to groff -mman -Tascii -P -cbu > /tmp/ls.txt Then Vim /tmp/ls.txt. GI -- Application has reported a 'Not My Fault' in module KRNL.EXE in line 0200:103F ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net