Bug 111192

Summary: "&&&" in some man pages when using UTF-8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues>
Component: manAssignee: Eido Inoue <havill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Carlos Rodrigues 2003-11-29 16:01:02 UTC
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User-Agent: Opera/7.23 (X11; Linux i686; U)  [en]

Description of problem:
Some manpages when viewed with an UTF-8 locale show some characters 
as "&&&". An example of this are the xmbind and nedit man pages where 
some of the "|" and "'" characters appear as "&&&".

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man nedit
2. look for "&&&"
3. LC_ALL=en_US man nedit
4. see that the "&&&" have disappeared, becoming "|" as they should
    

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Comment 1 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-11-29 20:24:13 UTC
Ok, this was in fact a problem with my configuration... I had a
"export LESSCHARSET=latin1" buried in some initialization scripts.