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Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??



Hi all,

Many of my man pages have problems with the character "-".  Sometimes the 
character is shown correctly.  Other times I get a box or more.  I use UTF8 
on my sid system.

$locale charmap
UTF-8

For example, "map cp":
...
>        cp - copy files and directories
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
>        cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
>        cp [OPTION]... �[24m�[24mtarget�[24mdirectory=DIRECTORY SOURCE...

The dash in front of "copy files and directories" is OK, but not the later 
ones.

Any idea what gives?


Thanks,

Peter



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