Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

Hi Aaron, Aaron Davies wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:00:06PM -0500: > $ locale charmap > ANSI_X3.4-1968 Heh. I didn't see that name for ASCII before and had to look it up to learn what it means. :) The GNU nroff(1) script never heard about that name for ASCII either, so it falls back to LC

Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

On Nov 30, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Aaron Davies wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:04:20PM -0500: > >> On Nov 30, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >>> Aaron Davies wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:38:13PM -0500: >>> \(bu bullets in man pages are rendering as quest

Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Ingo Schwarze wrote: on RHEL 6.7, 1.18.1.4; on RHEL 5.11, 1.18.1.1 Oh wow. Those are extremely old versions of groff. I haven't seen versions that old in production since 2009. As a user of RHEL, I found I had to update to avoid lots of problems. I am less than happy t

Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

Hi Aaron, Aaron Davies wrote on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:04:20PM -0500: > On Nov 30, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> 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 >> * Which

Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Ingo Schwarze 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 info

Re: [Groff] bullets render as question marks

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 sys

[Groff] bullets render as question marks

\(bu bullets in man pages are rendering as question marks under default settings for me is this expected? $ grep ^TROFF /etc/man.config TROFF/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc $ cat /tmp/t.1 . .TH "foo" "1" "December 2015" "" "" . .SH "NAME" \fBfoo\fR . .SH "SYNOPSIS" \fBfoo\fR . .IP "\(bu" 4 \fB\-\-baz