>>>> 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. No worries :) Now they look good. I've got the idea there are some "hidden" characters. Oh yeah, the make-up (bold) did disappear, but that's logical, I'd guess :)
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