Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

[Federico Lucifredi]

On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Assuming that the problem is caused by `-p', a possible solution is to
>> not use this man option or environment variable and add option `-t' to
>> nroff in `/etc/man.conf'.
> 
> Or use man-db instead, which is much smarter about character encodings
> and handles your situation out of the box with no configuration
> required; I just tested it to confirm this.

Since both pagers use troff in the back-end, this is just a matter of making 
the correct use of it.  Let me check if I am doing something funky upstream, 
with Werner's information it should be relatively simple.

Best -F


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