Re: man / xterm display quirk - repeating chars
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:14:22PM +0200, Andrew Fowler wrote:
> I get strange display problems in xterms using commands like man and
> info. Here's an example from #man man:
>
> sion, but [...] compile time. Also, by default, any
> cat pages[...]ip. Each `global' manual page hierary
> chy such a[...]n may have any directory as its cat
>
> Notice end line of line 2, the y from the previous line has been
> repeated. Sometimes the repeat occurs over several lines. I also
> noticed in doing the copy and paste into this mail that the extra y was
> not there (instead, the pasted text contained a '-').
Perhaps your character set displays the Latin-1 soft hyphen character
badly? Try 'man -7 man' to use the ASCII hyphen instead, and search down
'man man' for the -7 option to see a table of how various problematic
characters display in either mode.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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