On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> here is a temporary fix: [.......] > > While on this topic: could you please decomment /usr/lib/perl5/man line in > > /etc/man.conf ? > > too late for 2mdk. > now, export LESSCHARSET=latin1 and less won't owerwrite it with utf-8. > i've to figure why utf-8 is broken. > > i'll decomment perl man pages in next release :-)
Seems utf-8 is not broken. It doesn't work just because it is using ISO-10646-1 charset; if the input stream contains something not belonging to UTF-8, it is 'rolled back', thus causing lost character. Of course I can be wrong, this is just a uneducated interpretation of less source. If a sane default value is needed, I'd suggest LESSCHARSET=koi8-r instead of latin1 or utf-8, since koi8-r is very close to a 'raw' charset -- almost any char is display as is, except control characters. Even latin1 excludes the 0x80-0x9F range. I still happen to remember some comment like "Mandrake is the most iso-8859-x'ed Linux distro, but not i18n'ed". -- Abel Cheung GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc
