From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 11:46:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45591106564A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:46:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020E68FC17 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id q96BV7nA029869 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id q96BV7ne029868 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:31:07 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20121006113107.GA29404@saltmine.radix.net> References: <99771.1349515504@tristatelogic.com> <20121006094552.GA39590@kontrol.kode5.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121006094552.GA39590@kontrol.kode5.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Subject: Re: Xterm options for correct man page display? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:46:40 -0000 --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] >=20 > >=20 > > When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming > > out a bit garbled. > >=20 > > I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for > > xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would > > tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks. >=20 > It will most likely be due to your locale settings. Also, I experimented = with fonts in xterm and uxterm, only the default font allowed unicode chara= ters to display, so I am now using urxvt and it works great. I also changed= my pager option in the shell start up file to less as opposed to more, and= set lesscharset environment variable, man pages display fine now for me. For people using UTF-8, the uxterm script works out of the box... The usual problem with fonts is from overwriting the utf8Fonts resource setting via a too-wide "fonts" wildcard pattern. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFQcBZMtIqByHxlDocRAhwpAJwL5Zmvjm71JWLT6muehMbVTqC75QCgh/v2 1zMS5rbPHFk7kEYQG9DBK8o= =d4TN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--