Re: Wrong characters in man pages
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:10:10PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > This wasn't my problem, it was that of Matijs van Zuijlen. I hope you
> > don't mind me cc'ing your message back to the list so that he can see
> > it.
> >
> > I'm really curious as to how he ended up with ISO-8859-2 output, though,
> > as the version of groff in Debian doesn't support it and Matijs said he
> > was using an ISO-10646-1 font.
>
> No, it really isn't ISO-8859-2 output. The problem seems to be that man
> produces ISO-8859-1 output in an ISO-8859-15 locale. gnome-terminal,
> based on the locale, thinks the output _is_ in fact ISO-8859-15. This
> set does include the Zhe.
Ah, OK. The whole issue of encoding support in man and groff is fraught
with confusion, and doesn't work perfectly by any means. Try 'man -7' as
a workaround for now.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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