Re: [Groff] man file character encoding.

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:50:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Hello Erwin!
> > How can this be fixed?
> 
> 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.

With all due respect to Federico (we're co-workers these days, as chance
would have it!), I'm afraid that the other man package simply doesn't
have enough encoding support to do this right in general, and most major
GNU/Linux distributions have switched away from it at this point because
of this.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden