Bug#340909: man iconv: backspaces show up in less(1)

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.5-7
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/iconv.1.gz

Something is wrong with
$ man iconv
One sees

N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE
       iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

S^HSY^HYN^HNO^HOP^HPS^HSI^HIS^HS
       iconv -^H-f^Hf encoding -^H-t^Ht encoding inputfile

This doesn't happen with other man pages.
$ man -d iconv # gives:
Setting LESS to -ix8RmPm Manual page iconv(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte
%bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$PM Manual page iconv(1) ?ltline
%lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$-iXM
Setting MAN_PN to iconv(1)
++priv_drop_count = 1
Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanBmvE2u | /usr/bin/tbl |
/usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -Tascii8 | iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t BIG5 |
/usr/bin/col -b -p -x | less [input: 0, output: 0]

$ PAGER=more man iconv
doesn't have this problem.
$ LC_ALL=C LANG=C man iconv
does though.