Re: mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions

[nospam55]

> 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?

unfortunately with 


  $ LC_ALL=C man bash > bash.man

I get in bash.man the same funny ^H etc chars as before; moreover, I have from 
many weeks 

  $ echo  ${!LC*}
  LC_COLLATE
  $ declare -p LC_COLLATE
  declare -x LC_COLLATE="C"



> 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.`

This suggestion seems to be important, I will try using it and will let you 
know 

    nospam55