Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:14:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff mdoc character errors Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103161108130.21863@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <821F52B1-F457-4FF0-A7EC-B24DEF460767@mac.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103141406500.69969@wonkity.com> <821F52B1-F457-4FF0-A7EC-B24DEF460767@mac.com>
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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' >> >> shows 0x80 and 0x90 characters where lines should be hyphenated. 0x80 0x90 shows as "-" in an xterm, but as three non-English characters on a real console. Likewise, parens come out as 0xa8 and 0xe2. >> >> groff works correctly: >> gzcat /usr/share/man/man8/mergemaster.8.gz | groff -Tascii -mdoc - >> >> nroff does not: >> gzcat /usr/share/man/man8/mergemaster.8.gz | nroff -mdoc - > > 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? Tested again on a stock PCBSD install, it still produces the 0x80 0x90 sequence on csh and bash. TERM set to xterm or xterm-color doesn't make a difference. No LC_* variables are set. (I did change the PCBSD settings for mouse acceleration from "a twitch flings the pointer across town" to 1.0, and disabling "flash the cursor in a seizure-inducing way". But neither of these should affect how man pages are rendered.)
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