Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII

To: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Cc: debian-devel@pixar.com
Subject: Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII
From: Rob Leslie <rob@mars.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:39:51 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 199604101639.MAA00725@deimos.mars.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:05:00 PDT." <[🔎] m0u72On-00063bC@mongo.pixar.com>

> The "man" program makes ISO-Latin-1 cat files. The default console font
> is ASCII, and the result is that the continuation hyphen comes out
> as an inverted exclamation mark under 1.1 . I can have 1.1 set the console
> font differently, or we can have "man" output ASCII. What should we do?

A similar problem occurs within xterms. I would prefer `man' produce ASCII.
(Didn't previous versions of man do this? I think this problem was only
recently introduced.)

-- 
Robert Leslie
rob@mars.org

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