Re: -man fails to use ANSI commands

[Anton Shepelev]

I accidentally replied to Brandon my mail, because of my
client (Sylpheed), which insists on replying to this message
my mail instead of by NNTP (via Gmane). This does not happen
with any other messages I have tried. I am sending this to
the mailing list, but the threading may be broken...

G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev:

> > instead of using ANSI control codes, and this has no
> > intended effect.  How can I cause `-man -Tutf8'  to use
> > ANSI codes?
>
> Check your environment for variables named "GROFF_SGR" (a
> Debianism) and "GROFF_NO_SGR".  Unset them both and try
> "groff -man -Tutf8" again.

`export | grep -i sgr' finds nothing, unfortunately.  Where
else can I look for the reason of -man treating my virtual
terminal as a printer?  Once I find it, I will bring it up
with the administrator of that system, and then perhaps with
the distro maintainers.