> On Nov 30, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > > Hi Aaron, > > Aaron Davies wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:38:13PM -0500: > >> \(bu bullets in man pages are rendering as question marks under >> default settings for me >> >> is this expected? > > No, but you don't supply enough information to really help debugging. > > * Which version of which operating system are you running?
the commands are running on RHEL 6.7 (also tested on 5.11, same behavior there); the terminal apps i've tried this through are X.Org 6.8.99.903(253) xterm on RHEL 6.7, XTerm(215) on RHEL 5.11, PuTTY 0.63 on windows 7, and Terminal and iTerm 2.1.4 on OS X 10.10.5 > * Which version of groff are you running? on RHEL 6.7, 1.18.1.4; on RHEL 5.11, 1.18.1.1 > * Which version of man(1) are you running? on RHEL 6.7, 1.6f; on RHEL 5.11, 1.6d > Please show the output of the following commands: > > $ locale > $ env | grep -i term > $ echo '\(bu' | nroff | hexdump -C > $ echo '\(bu' | mandoc | hexdump -C $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=C $ env - locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= $ env | grep -i term TERM=vt100 $ env - env | grep -i term $ echo '\(bu' | nroff | hexdump -C 00000000 3f 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a |?...............| 00000010 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a |................| * 00000040 0a 0a 0a |...| 00000043 $ echo '\(bu' | mandoc | hexdump -C -ksh: mandoc: not found $ (identical output on RHEL 6.7 and RHEL 5.11) > The latter may help diagnosing the problem if you have mandoc(1) > installed. > > More information may be needed, but the above should get us started. > > I suspect that you have set your locale(1) to an encoding your > terminal doesn't support, for example a UTF-8 locale in a non-UTF-8 > terminal, but that's a far shot given that you provided so little > information. > >> $ grep ^TROFF /etc/man.config >> TROFF/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc > > That's probably not relevant. The output shown below indicates > that your man(1) is not using the -Tps output mode. sorry, wrong variable; i think i meant to show NROFF on RHEL 6.7: $ grep ^NROFF /etc/man.config NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null $ on RHEL 5.11: $ grep ^NROFF /etc/man.config NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c --legacy NROFF_OLD_CHARSET -mandoc 2>/dev/null $ -- Aaron Davies aaron.dav...@gmail.com
