Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages

[Dan Jacobson]

>> >> But I in emacs using M-x man, I see
>> >> Copyright \251 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Eli> You should set up Groff to use -Tascii

Hmm... how would a user reset this despite his GNU/Linux distribution?
export GROFF_TYPESETTER=ascii
doesn't seem to help $ man or M-x man... [Of course Chinese man pages
couldn't use this]

>> Funny, "Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
>> shows the copyright character in gnus, but not in M-x man.

Eli> How do you mean ``in gnus''?  How do you display man pages in Gnus?

looking at this discussion in gnus I see the c in a circle ok.

Eli> Does the following work in Emacs for you?

Eli>      C-x RET c latin-1 RET M-x man basename RET

looks nice... Hmm... would that go in a hook then?  Got to avoid the
Chinese man pages though...

Anyways supposing I don't want to bother with the GNU/Linux
distributor guys, what env variable would one set to get (C) instead
of non ASCII before the man page makes it into emacs? ... but without
hurting Chinese man pages?  This also should help man from the shell,
which is also affected.  [ Being that this all is no big deal, I suppose
I can live with the \251's incase there is no solution.]

Eli> The next Emacs release automatically uses the locale-specific
Eli> coding system to decode man pages (in case you have man pages
Eli> translated into Chinese, for example).

I can see the body of a Chinese man page OK with M-x man, but for each
header line, the "overstriking ^H's meant to move the printer head back
for another hit, thus making bold characters" interfere...
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