Re: Wrong characters in man pages
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:41:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
Thanks. I'll just wait for the confusion to go away.
I already switched to an ISO-8859-1 locale for now. I don't really need
the euro sign that badly :-). gnucash works better this way as well, and
will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the
ring-with-four-dashes sign (what is that anyway?) in different places.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown
Matijs van Zuijlen
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