UTF-8 problem in 8.0

Sean C. Farley scf at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 4 21:39:11 UTC 2010


On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Derek Kulinski wrote:

> Hello Sean,
>
> Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:03:01 AM, you wrote:
>
>> The last commit that I recall (r192561) fixed dashes in front of 
>> options (.Fl macro) but not dashes present within a man page. 
>> Personally, I just create an alias for man to call 'LANG=C man' to 
>> protect against examples with non-ASCII (U+002D) dashes.
>
>> Read the commit message[1] for a better explanation of unresolved 
>> issues.
>
>> Sean
>>    1. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=192561
>
> What caused this to be broken? Everything was fine up until 7.2 (or at 
> least I didn't notice this earlier)

Previously (to some commit revision), man (nroff) did not have NLS 
enabled, so the output was in ASCII.

Sean
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