Re: [Groff] character garble

[Werner LEMBERG]

>    >      o If the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR is set, SGR
>    >        output is disabled, reverting to the old behaviour.
>    > 
>    > nor does this.
> 
>    Hmm, strange.  This *must* work since it directly affects grotty.
>    Are you sure that your man program doesn't use a hard-coded groff
>    version?  Is it really using 1.19.2?
> 
> I overwrote the existing groff 1.15 that was installed to the
> system, so I am fairly certain.  However, is there something I can
> do to test it to make sure?

You have to find out which grotty is used by `man'.

If you set GROFF_NO_SGR, and the call

  groff -Tascii -man grotty.1 | less

works successfully, the problem must be elsewhere.


    Werner