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Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by <AD>



On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as
> > a highligted <AD> and not hypens.  What would be causing this?  The
> > relevant package versions are listed below.  This is hybrid slink
> > system with lots of package compiled from potato sources.
> > 
> > man-db 2.3.10-69n
> > groff 1.11a-7
> > 
> 
> Perhaps you might try setting the LESSCHARSET environment variable, or
> the parallel for whatever pager you're using.  Mine is "latin1".  

LESSCHARSET is set inside man program.
This was a bug (#46628) in version 69n .
Fixed in -69p .
Just apt-get it!

thanx,
fab
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