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and subject line Re: Problems with line breaking in the presence of certain
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regarding man-db: Problems with line breaking in the presence of certain
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: minor
When displaying dash(1) in an en_GB.UTF-8 locale in an rxvt-unicode
terminal, the following line is incorrectly wrapped:
the exception of newline. A backslash preceding a < newline > is treated
as
I have used < and > to indicate the characters that man writes to either
side of the word "newline", but which I can't copy and paste into my
8-bit editor. It seems to be on account of these characters that the
wrapping calculation goes wrong, and the final character of the line
(the "s" of "as") ends up on the following physical line of the
terminal. As far as I can see, the quote characters mentioned above are
calculated as being single-width but displayed over two character cells.
The problem persists if I change my terminal font from fixed (bitmap) to
DejaVu Sans, and also if I change my terminal emulator to uxterm (in
which case when using fixed it uses different characters, or possibly a
different font, for the quote characters, but with the same width
problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of more utilities from
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.23 Debian package management system
ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-21 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn groff <none> (no description available)
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 3.0.4-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more
ii links [www-browser] 2.1pre37-1.1 Web browser running in text mode
-- debconf information excluded
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Nobody's said anything and I _really_ can't reproduce this. On top of
the reproducer I crafted earlier in the bug thread, I went ahead and
installed rxvt-unicode and the problem is no longer evident there,
either.
What I do notice is that bold fonts look _ghastly_ in rxvt-unicode. I
encourage the submitted to yield to the siren call of xterm. ;-)
Attaching screenshot and closing.
Regards,
Branden
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