Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgrni Where are you reading the man pages. You have to change to encoding of the terminal in which you read your man pages. This depend of the terminal you are using. You can try to change the encoding globally by lauching localedrake Olivier Esser I apologise for being imprecise. It looks like my problem is that man pager (or the program preprocessing man texts) is wrongly formatting Polish man pages and changing native letters to a mess like 9| instead of ?, c instead of ?, etc. I was hoping to find such settings in man.config to allow me to alter this behavour (because I cannot even read fast this thing). No success so far. And this behavour appears REGARDLESS of using CLI or terminal (or printed in PDF file). Changing the font used in terminal won't help. Even using localedrake won't fix it. I guess it must be something with man preprocessing settings (but I'm no expert here). Desperately looking for a help, Wojciech Podgrni I am not sure I can help you, but first try to lauch the following command xterm -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-2 I tried. It didn't help. and try to read a man page; if it display correctly this is a termianl problem: you should probably edit ~/.18n and have all locale (or at least LC_CTYPE) set to be something like: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-2 I tried that on global settings. Do I have to restart my system to have it work? Because a quick try didn't work. You should replace the fr_FR by the polish code (which I don't know, maybe you can change only the LC_CTYPE as mentioned above) otherwise try to localize the source of the man page: these are in /usr/share/man/. and try to see what encoding they have (decompress them in order to read them) maybe try to open these in a hexadecimal text editor. Are you sure they are written in ISO-8859-2 ? I have tried that. And the results are weird. I copied Polish version of man.1.bz2 to my home folder, upacked it. Opened it with less and oowriter and gedit and kwrite. It really IS coded with ISO-8859-2 (or at least viewer and all these editors have no problems with Polish letters here). I tried to see the content in the compressed file (used file-roller and vi) - the same results. When I view compressed man pages with mc, I see good Polish letters - and my mc is definitely set to ISO-8859-2. I tried to use man2html and got a page viewable well on lynx but a mess on the other, more modern web browsers. Conclusions: 1. Something must be wrong with my man preformatting settings. 2. man2html on my computer creates lynx (and nothing else)-compatible web pages. 3. It looks like if I really want to read Polish man pages, I have to: a) change uncompressed man page to html and b) print that page from lynx. Hoping to having help, Olivier Thank you for your help, Olivier. It's the people like you make Linux community great. Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Dick Gevers wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:54:18 +0100, Wojciech Podgrni wrote about Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages: I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? Have you tried to open man pages with Konqueror? Just type man:appname in the location bar and it will show up. After that - if not satisfactory - you could try changing the settings of Konqueror to those you need. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= Thank you, it works perfectly. It looks like my problem is solved! :) :) Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgrni Where are you reading the man pages. You have to change to encoding of the terminal in which you read your man pages. This depend of the terminal you are using. You can try to change the encoding globally by lauching localedrake Olivier Esser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgrni Where are you reading the man pages. You have to change to encoding of the terminal in which you read your man pages. This depend of the terminal you are using. You can try to change the encoding globally by lauching localedrake Olivier Esser I apologise for being imprecise. It looks like my problem is that man pager (or the program preprocessing man texts) is wrongly formatting Polish man pages and changing native letters to a mess like 9| instead of , c instead of , etc. I was hoping to find such settings in man.config to allow me to alter this behavour (because I cannot even read fast this thing). No success so far. And this behavour appears REGARDLESS of using CLI or terminal (or printed in PDF file). Changing the font used in terminal won't help. Even using localedrake won't fix it. I guess it must be something with man preprocessing settings (but I'm no expert here). Desperately looking for a help, Wojciech Podgrni smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] How to change font setting for man pages
Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Hi everyone, I have been searching for the answer of this question for a some time and I staill cannot find the answer: how do you change font setting for man pages to ISO8859-2 coding? TIA Wojciech Podgórni Where are you reading the man pages. You have to change to encoding of the terminal in which you read your man pages. This depend of the terminal you are using. You can try to change the encoding globally by lauching localedrake Olivier Esser I apologise for being imprecise. It looks like my problem is that man pager (or the program preprocessing man texts) is wrongly formatting Polish man pages and changing native letters to a mess like 9| instead of ¶, c instead of ¿, etc. I was hoping to find such settings in man.config to allow me to alter this behavour (because I cannot even read fast this thing). No success so far. And this behavour appears REGARDLESS of using CLI or terminal (or printed in PDF file). Changing the font used in terminal won't help. Even using localedrake won't fix it. I guess it must be something with man preprocessing settings (but I'm no expert here). Desperately looking for a help, Wojciech Podgórni I am not sure I can help you, but first try to lauch the following command xterm -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-2 and try to read a man page; if it display correctly this is a termianl problem: you should probably edit ~/.18n and have all locale (or at least LC_CTYPE) set to be something like: LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-2 You should replace the fr_FR by the polish code (which I don't know, maybe you can change only the LC_CTYPE as mentioned above) otherwise try to localize the source of the man page: these are in /usr/share/man/. and try to see what encoding they have (decompress them in order to read them) maybe try to open these in a hexadecimal text editor. Are you sure they are written in ISO-8859-2 ? Hoping to having help, Olivier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
