On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:30:41PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I'm not entirely sure what less(1) is doing in the second instance that is > triggering the problem. I believe it's the "-" (for "-c"), which may not be present in the font. I made some fixes in patch #185 (2004/3/3), to handle the characters that groff uses instead of the ASCII hyphen which the manpage specifies. Long ago, it was conventional practice to use \- to make troff show hyphens full width; groff's maintainer changed that by transmuting it into a different UTF-8 near-equivalent. Oddly, I see that hdparm's manpage doesn't even do that - groff just translates the hyphen (a bug of course: in the absence of markup there's no reason to change ASCII text - next we'll see parentheses mangled, I suppose). Anyway, that's the character which is altered. I can see that in a typescript. Combining that with the 9x15 font and clicking the menu to force xterm (#187) to do its own line-drawing, I can see something like the second picture. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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