[Groff] Re: [Cooker] man problem under non-latin1 locale

[Pixel]

Borsenkow Andrej <address@hidden> writes:

> There are two problems associated with using man under non-iso-8859-1
> (or derivatives) locale.
> 
> 1. There are several special characters used in formatting. I can name
> at least:
> 
> - soft hyphenation
> - bullets used in list
> - right accent (in quotations like `someword')
> 
> All these are mapped to characters from upper part of iso-8859-1; when
> you are using any KOI8-R they are displayed as pseudo graphic with
> really ugly results.

by the way, the same happens for the "right accent" and iso-8859-15