Bug#164755: debian-policy: mangled color sequences in fhs.txt

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:59:04PM +0200, Matej Vela wrote:
> groff 1.18 typesets bold and italic characters using ANSI color
> sequences rather than backspaces, and `col -b' doesn't filter them
> out:
> 
>                      1mFilesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.10m
> 
>                          Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Group
>                                4medited24m 4mby24m 4mDaniel24m 4mQuinlan0m
> 
> Setting the GROFF_NO_SGR environment variable makes groff revert to
> the old behavior, which `col -b' does handle:

Seconded, please do this. I tried to neuter the ANSI escape stuff as
much as possible in groff, since pagers don't handle it well on the
whole, but could only really do so for the man and mdoc macro sets
without forking too wildly from upstream.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]