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
--
| fab@pukki.ntc.nokia.com fpolacco@prosa.it fpolacco@debian.org
| 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E
| fabrizio.polacco@nokia.com gsm: +358 (0)40 707 2468
Reply to: