On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:
>> Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to >> not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to >> nroff in `/etc/man.conf'. > > Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character encodings > and handles your situation out of the box with no configuration > required; I just tested it to confirm this. Since both pagers use troff in the back-end, this is just a matter of making the correct use of it. Let me check if I am doing something funky upstream, with Werner's information it should be relatively simple. Best -F _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C
