Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:29:14 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff mdoc character errors Message-ID: <821F52B1-F457-4FF0-A7EC-B24DEF460767@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103141406500.69969@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103141406500.69969@wonkity.com>
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On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Warren Block wrote: > man mergemaster | hd | less -p'80 90' > > shows 0x80 and 0x90 characters where lines should be hyphenated. 0x80 0x90 shows as "-" in an xterm, but as three non-English characters on a real console. Likewise, parens come out as 0xa8 and 0xe2. > > groff works correctly: > gzcat /usr/share/man/man8/mergemaster.8.gz | groff -Tascii -mdoc - > > nroff does not: > gzcat /usr/share/man/man8/mergemaster.8.gz | nroff -mdoc - I can't reproduce here, running a shell under Terminal.app (which claims to be TERM=xterm-color). What do you have $TERM set to, and do you have $LC_ALL and friends from setlocale(3) set to something? Regards, -- -Chuck
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