On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:13:30PM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote: > Yeah. In particular, it seems that despite the fact that manpages can be > displayed properly using a strictly ASCII character set, the "man" > command will generate non-ASCII versions of those characters when run > under the en_US.UTF-8 locale setting. This doesn't work properly at all > when displaying in an xterm that isn't configured to display UTF-8.
yes (and it doesn't help that groff changed the semantics of backslashed codes back/forth a few times over the past few years, making it impossible to _use_ ASCII even where ASCII is inarguably correct). > Makes me wonder why, these days, xterm doesn't by default properly > display UTF-8 characters. That's up to the packagers (who in many cases are the same people who decided to make the default locale change). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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