Re: mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions

[Kevin Rodgers]

nospam55 wrote:

> I live already under 
>
>   export LC_COLLATE=C
>
> your suggestion is important, it suggests me that 
> the problem's origin is not emacs-related;


Correct.

> in fact if I say from bash
>
>  $ man bash > read.tmp
>
> then read.tmp is hardly readable because of plenty of embedded ctrl chars such 
> as ^H;


That is a separate problem, which Emacs handles in the Man-fontify-manpage
function (C-h v).  You can even invoke it directly via M-x.

What happens if you run this command:

LC_ALL=C man bash > bash.man

Are there still non-ASCII characters in the bash.man file?


> I will  try  man man

The `man foo` command is basically equivalent to:


nroff -man /usr/man/man?/foo.? | ${PAGER:more}


It works because your terminal interprets the backspace and various escape
sequences that nroff outputs.

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Kevin Rodgers