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  1. Bug #47011
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Comment 1 for bug 47011

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Graeme Hewson (ghewson) wrote : Re: man doesn't render quotes corrections

I see the same problem. For instance, line 299 (in an 80-character wide Konsole session) and the following lines for "man man" display as:

              some parts of it may only be displayed properly when using GNU
              nroffâs latin1(7) device.

              Description Octal latin1 ascii
              ---------------------------------------------
              continuation hyphen 255 ­ -
              bullet (middle dot) 267 · o
              acute accent 264 ´ â
              multiplication sign 327 Ã x

This is on a fresh install from CD of 6.06 (the release version). In my environment I have:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

if I unset LANG, the problem doesn't appear (I haven't experimented with LANGUAGE).

Yet on another system, the problem doesn't appear. This system had an alpha version of Dapper installed, and has been continually updated since, so it should be the same as the release version. The two systems have the same versions of /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz and /etc/manpath.config (checked with ls -l and cksum). What's different is the Encoding setting of Konsole. On the system without the problem the setting is Default. On the system with the problem, the setting is Western European (iso 8859-1). Changing the setting to Default on the latter causes the problem to disappear.