malformed man pages

[Boris Samorodov]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> >   
> >> We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based
> >> distro) that all man pages malformed.
> > What is the base FreeBSD version?
> FreeBSD 7.2

OK.

> >> Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape
> >> archive files
> >> 1mDESCRIPTION0m The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of
> >> files, directories, and
> >>     
> > What are your terminal, locale, fonts?
> >   
> echo $TERM xterm-color

OK.

> How do I know what locale and fonts are effective?

% locale

I don't remember how to detect current font, but I know how to
set it up. ;-) I use x11-fonts/dejavu and set it at ~/XTerm:
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XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
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