Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by <AD>
*- On 11 Oct, Fabrizio Polacco wrote about "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!
>
Damn, can't believe I didn't check the bug list first! Thanks.
Brian Servis
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