Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-1 Severity: normal It looks like man outputs only ASCII7 text if the output is redirected to a file or a pipe. This even happens if the locale is explicitly specified on the command line.
For example, set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8, and compare the outputs of "man chsh", "man chsh|less" and "man -L de_DE.UTF-8|less". The first one outputs nice utf8 German umlaut chars, but these chars are simply dropped in the latter two cases. This breaks programs such as pinfo, which uses man as a backend for displaying man pages. I would suggest that man just looks at the current locale (or adding a command line param that forces such behaviour). Anyone who wants a clean ASCII7 text can simply set the correct locale, or specify -7 on the command line. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-ac6 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.2 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.52 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.10 Package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-8 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true * man-db/rebuild-database: true * man-db/install-setuid: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
