BUG: man is not compatible with UTF-8

[vinc17@…]

With UTF-8 locale, "man port" is displayed as:

<B7>^{H<B7> current: the port in the current working directory.}

<B7>^{H<B7> active: set of installed and active ports.}

<B7>^{H<B7> inactive: set of installed but inactive ports.}

The fix seems to be to replace the -Tlatin1 option for NROFF by -Tascii in /opt/local/etc/man.conf (removing the -T option is not sufficient as the result is cached as /opt/local/man/cat1/port.1.bz2 but the file can't be read correctly in ISO-8859-1 locales due to the non-ASCII characters). Note that Linux uses another man software, which doesn't have such problems.

[vinc17@…]

Also note that the man utility that comes with Mac OS X has no problem either.

[mww@…]

can't reproduce this with the (new and shiny) version 1.6e - if problem persists, please re-open with LC_CTYPE/LANG settings (or other environment) to reproduce this!

[vinc17@…]

To reproduce this bug:

1. Remove /opt/local/man/cat1/port.1.bz2 (this is the cached text file).

2. In a terminal with the following locales:

   LANG="POSIX"
   LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
   LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
   LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
   LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
   LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
   LC_TIME="POSIX"
   LC_ALL="POSIX/en_US.ISO8859-1/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX"
   

type "man port" and quit. This creates the cache file.

3. "bunzip2 -c /opt/local/man/cat1/port.1.bz2 | hexdump -C" should show you b7 characters.

4. In a terminal with the following locales:

   LANG="POSIX"
   LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
   LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
   LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
   LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
   LC_TIME="POSIX"
   LC_ALL="POSIX/en_US.UTF-8/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX"
   

type "man port". With PAGER="less -is", I get <B7>^{H<B7> instead of bullets. FYI:}

prunille:~> man -w port
/opt/local/man/cat1/port.1.bz2 (<-- /opt/local/man/man1/port.1)

Until "man" can know how to deal with this (e.g. by remembering the encoding and regenerating the text file if need be), one should stick to ASCII.

Anyway, this is not the only problem. Still in a terminal with UTF-8 locales:

prunille:~> cp /opt/local/man/man1/port.1 ~/man/man1/port-test.1
prunille:~> man -w port-test
/Users/vinc17/man/man1/port-test.1
prunille:~> man port-test

I also get <B7>^{H<B7> instead of bullets.}

[pipping@…]

fixed in r23599.

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