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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:58:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: nroff mdoc character errors
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>> man mergemaster | hd | less -p'80 90'
>
> I can't reproduce here, running a shell under Terminal.app (which claims to be TERM=xterm-color).  What do you have $TERM set to, and do you have $LC_ALL and friends from setlocale(3) set to something?

$TERM xterm
$LANG en_US.UTF-8
$LC_ALL unset

i386 8-stable as of today, xfce's Terminal and xterm do it although 
visually it looks okay.  ttyv1 shows the characters.