Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages
On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 08:43:40 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr.
> <fbhjr@fhase.net> wrote:
> >
> > Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> > as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
> > Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
> >
> > xterm -u8 -fn \
> > '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
> >
> > It displays the "UTF-8-demo.txt" file nicely, with the sole exception of
> > Amharic Ethiopian, which is displayed as outline boxes per character.
> >
> > Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
> > whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
> > strange chars, e.g.:
> >
> > man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields:
> >
> > "delivering and nonâ@~^Pdelivering recipes.."
>
> [...]
>
> Can "most" (your pager) support UTF8? Have you tried to use "less" instead?
See above. I have tried three pagers: more, less, most. I thought that if
the xterm had the proper and useable unicode font it should not be a
problem. I have tried those three pagers, and they all yield the same
result. I have tried uxterm and mlterm as well--same result. Please
correct me if my font selection is way off.
Regards,
Fred henry, Jr.
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