Where is the info viewer?

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Sat Sep 14 04:37:15 UTC 2019


Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > 
> > BTW pinfo is not without problems. If you have some info files with
> > non-ascii characters in them (like mutt.info for example), they look
> > most ugly. E.g. the header (with dashes)
> > 
> >  — The Detailed Node Listing —
> > 
> > becomes
> > 
> >  M-b~@~T The Detailed Node Listing  M-b~@~T
> 
> Indeed, pinfo presents Unicode symbols as garbage. For example, many
> info pages contain glyphs like 0xe2 0x80 0x98 "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK"
> (U+2018) , 0xe2 0x80 0x99 "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" (U+2019) etc,
> and they are presented as garbage even in UTF-8 terminals like Mate
> Terminal or PuTTY.
> 
> I've created a bug report:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240553
> let's see what comes out of it.

Incredible, fixed already.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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