Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:32:00 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xterm options for correct man page display? Message-ID: <20121006113200.GB29404@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20121006113107.GA29404@saltmine.radix.net> References: <99771.1349515504@tristatelogic.com> <20121006094552.GA39590@kontrol.kode5.net> <20121006113107.GA29404@saltmine.radix.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > 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 ] > > > > > > > > When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming > > > out a bit garbled. > > > > > > 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. > > > > 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 charaters 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. For example http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#utf8_fonts -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFQcBavtIqByHxlDocRAgu8AKCtL3YGJEB+quJxLv6t5eC+CrloWQCePlV/ +fqUXfPfj66pH/7B9t8abM0= =Rm3R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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