man Renders ugly mans

[Ryan Schmidt]

Are you just saying you would like someone to look at ticket 14337,  
about the problem displaying manpages? If so, I'm not sure how we  
would solve the problem; I have no trouble viewing manpages on my  
system.


On Jan 25, 2009, at 07:21, Charles Darwin wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Charles Darwin <darwinskernel at gmail.com>
>> Date: January 25, 2009 8:20:54 AM EST (CA)
>> To: macports.users at gmail.com
>> Subject: Fwd: man Renders ugly mans
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Charles Darwin <darwinskernel at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM
>> Subject: Re: man Renders ugly mans
>> To: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm.org>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19-Jan-09, at 11:39 PM, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>>
>>> Hello...Charles?
>>>
>>> Charles Darwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -bash-3.2$ uname -v && which man && man -v && less -V
>>>> Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008;
>>>> root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
>>>> /usr/bin/man
>>>> man, version 1.6f
>>>>
>>>> less 418
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Absolutely. Bad codepage.
>>>
>>> can you run the following:
>>>
>>> echo $LANG
>>> set | grep "LC_"
>>
>> -bash-3.2$ echo $LANG
>> en_CA.UTF-8
>> -bash-3.2$ set | grep "LC_"
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I presume you are running "man man" there.
>>
>> Correct
>>
>>> Are you integrating your own distro?
>>
>> Yes and No because I am not sure what you mean by distro. I am
>> compiling on 10.4 and 10.5. On 10.4 I get a nice man page with
>> printing staring from the top of the screen (very neat). I tried
>> installing from MacPorts and this ticket was the result (I think
>> people at MacPort could use your help!)
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/14337
>>
>> Problem is solved in the sense that I configured this time  
>> differently
>> which if you compare the attached files, I think, shows that the
>> problem is with one of the Macport installed packages on my systems.
>> This works both on 10.4 and 10.5.
>>
>> Thanks and my apologies for the slow reply,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> You have to settle on one codepage for locale, set man to
>>> default to it, and make sure the man pages on the system respect the
>>> encoding. On OS-X 10.5, the choice for US English is
>>>
>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> I have work in progress to improve automagic detection for  
>>> exceptions,
>>> but that is meant for third parties who ship man pages  
>>> independently of
>>> a distro.
>>>
>>> If you just brought in a newer version  of man on an existing  
>>> downstream
>>> distribution, you need to replicate the work the packagers did to  
>>> set up
>>> configuration, and probably apply patches as relevant to the  
>>> distro ..
>>> can you tell me which case are we dealing with here, a bug in the  
>>> distro
>>> or you importing a new version of man?
>>>
>>> Best -F
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