On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:07 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > test with another locale that can handle UTF-8: > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man whatever
No luck, still get the same garbage. > Or try by appending "-d" for debugging. Here's it. What's wrong? ------------------------------------------ $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man -d xrandr [ . . . ] Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz", pid 3739 pre-processors `t' from default page_encoding = ISO-8859-1 source_encoding = ISO-8859-1 cat_charset = ANSI_X3.4-1968 locale_charset = UTF-8 roff_device (locale) = utf8 roff_encoding = ISO-8859-1 output_encoding = UTF-8 Terminal width 80 Terminal width 80 within cat page range [80, 80] format: 1, save_cat: 0, found: 1 Setting LESS to -ix8RmPm Manual page xrandr(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$PM Manual page xrandr(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$ifMRdh20 Setting MAN_PN to xrandr(1) ++priv_drop_count = 1 Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tutf8 [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "/usr/bin/zsoelim", pid 3740 Started "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE", pid 3742 Started "preconv", pid 3744 Started "tbl", pid 3745 Started "nroff", pid 3746 Starting pipeline: less [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {0, NULL}] Active processes (1): "less" (3749) -> 0 --priv_drop_count = 0 hash_free: 6 entries, 6 (100%) unique Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/xrandr.1.gz", pid 3739 pre-processors `t' from default page_encoding = ISO-8859-1 source_encoding = ISO-8859-1 cat_charset = ANSI_X3.4-1968 locale_charset = UTF-8 roff_device (locale) = utf8 roff_encoding = ISO-8859-1 output_encoding = UTF-8 Terminal width 80 Terminal width 80 within cat page range [80, 80] format: 1, save_cat: 0, found: 1 Setting LESS to -ix8RmPm Manual page xrandr(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$PM Manual page xrandr(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$ifMRdh20 Setting MAN_PN to xrandr(1) ++priv_drop_count = 1 Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -Tutf8 [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started "/usr/bin/zsoelim", pid 3740 Started "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE", pid 3742 Started "preconv", pid 3744 Started "tbl", pid 3745 Started "nroff", pid 3746 Starting pipeline: less [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {0, NULL}] Active processes (1): "less" (3749) -> 0 --priv_drop_count = 0 hash_free: 6 entries, 6 (100%) unique ------------------------------------------ Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org