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Date:      Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:44:21 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is the info viewer?
Message-ID:  <20190913084421.GA46171@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20190912040915.GA1267@admin.sibptus.ru>
References:  <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190910071826.GA28277@mail.bsd4all.net> <20190912040915.GA1267@admin.sibptus.ru>

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Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Better than the user-unfriendly GNU info is pinfo, in FreeBSD ports cat=
egory misc.
> >=20
> > I install and use pinfo in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
>=20
> BTW pinfo is not without problems. If you have some info files with
> non-ascii characters in them (like mutt.info for example), they look
> most ugly. E.g. the header (with dashes)
>=20
>  =E2=80=94 The Detailed Node Listing =E2=80=94
>=20
> becomes
>=20
>  M-b~@~T The Detailed Node Listing  M-b~@~T

Indeed, pinfo presents Unicode symbols as garbage. For example, many
info pages contain glyphs like 0xe2 0x80 0x98 "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK"
(U+2018) , 0xe2 0x80 0x99 "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U+2019) etc,
and they are presented as garbage even in UTF-8 terminals like Mate
Terminal or PuTTY.

I've created a bug report:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D240553
let's see what comes out of it.



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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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