On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:40:15PM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote: > > There's an explanation to be found in less' man page and Mutt's > manual. > > <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3> > > "Also, the internal pager supports a couple other advanced > features. For one, it will accept and translate the ``standard'' > nroff sequences for bold and underline. These sequences are a > series of either the letter, backspace (^H), the letter again for > bold or the letter, backspace, ``_'' for denoting underline. ..." > > You can convert those sequences to regular text using col with > its '-b' option. Due to some versions of col's inability to > handle UTF-8, the '-p' option may be necessary as well.
Hi James, I've tried `col -b` and `col -bp`, both produce errors and stop immatiatly. y...@bsd ~ > cat manual.txt | col -b -p 9.14. Default editor Function Bindings col: Illegal byte sequence -- Hi, Wu, Yue