Package: less
Version: 458-2
Followup-For: Bug #432947
Dear Maintainer,
** What led up to the situation?
Letters with accent are displayed by less as hexadecimal
numbers in angle braquets as if they were control or binary
characters.
This occurs with any of the automatically generated config
files in /home for example (e.g. files created by aspell
containing unknown aspell words). All these files are reported
as non UTF-8 by:
$ file <name_of_the_file>
.aspell.ca.prepl: ISO-8859 text
** What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
As the man page states, I shouldn't do anything because
the LANG, and any LC_ environment variables have the string
"utf8". Even so, I tried setting the variable LESSCHARSET
$ LESSCHARSET=utf-8 && export LESSCHARSET
$ echo $LESSCHARSET
utf-8
Nothing changed. As a previous user suggested, I created a
dummy file with with accented letters using nano. File says
$ file foo.txt
foo.txt is : UTF-8 Unicode text.
In this case, less properly displays all the letters. So, at least,
I would suggest changing THE NATIONAL CHARACTER SETS section
of the man page. It does not describe what happens.
Thank you
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages less depends on:
ii debianutils 4.4
ii libc6 2.18-4
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140118-1
less recommends no packages.
less suggests no packages.
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