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Re: man-db + kterm can't show english pages properly



At 04 Apr 2000 10:02:06 +0900,
Germano Leichsenring <germano@jedi.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> Hello, I've noticed man-db + kterm can't display english pages properly.
> As stated on 'man man', this is known behaviour; but I have two workarounds
> which can fix this. I checked the first with jgroff, groff, latin1 languages
> and had no side-effects; the second one doesn"t seem like a good idea,

This is because less doesn't handle latin1 properly on kterm.
install lv and set it as pager, that is, "export PAGER=lv"

It might be possible to solve this problem to set JLESSCHARSET to something 
if you are using jless.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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