Package: most
Version: 4.9.5-1
Followup-For: Bug #211217
Since most is unable to show UTF-8 (Unicode?) characters and most man pages
contain apostrophes (') (which man-db seems to translate into the properly
Unicode equivalent), it's impossible to read man pages as big portions of the
text are left out. That's because not only leaves most those characters out,
but also parts of the text behind them.
For instance, run 'man rsync' after setting the en_US.UTF-8 locale (to make
sure you get the English version), look for the description of the sparse
switch and notice that it's not readable. Now try with the regular en_US or C
locales, you'll see that it's perfectly readable, but that the apostrophes are
now shown as '. More can handle the UTF-8 case properly, so it's not a problem
in the terminal.
In short, as a workaround, users can read man pages in Latin-1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-ck3
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages most depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit
most recommends no packages.
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