* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004:03:28:21:06:03+0100] scribed: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) > > in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in > > text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens > > to bare minus signs; if they are written as "\-", it works fine. Try, > > for example, "man jed" with an UTF-8 locale. > > > > Am I doing something wrong? Does it work better for anyone else? Or is > > it a bug in these manual pages, or perhaps in man-db or groff? > > (a) Please see /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian; (b) it shouldn't > actually garble them, merely display Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS, so what > versions of man-db, groff, your pager, and your terminal emulator are > you using? Interesting ;> # for mds in man-db groff less xterm > do > apt-show-versions $mds > done man-db/testing uptodate 2.4.2-13 groff/testing uptodate 1.18.1-15 less/testing uptodate 381-3 xterm/testing uptodate 4.2.1-12.1 I have been having same problem, and opened Bug#235046 against xterm. There I was told that this is a font problem; although, changing to the recommended fonts did *not* resolve my problems. Also, now I find that this problem affects more than just hyphens (-); but, also characters such as (`) (e.g., man apt-show-versions). Yes, I know that _somehow_ it should be possible to get to xterm v4.3.0-7; but, the dependencies are quite daunting on this box ;< What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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