Bug 39849

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Description of problem:
The Japanese extension to less-358 has broken the program's handling of
non-ASCII "European" character sets. There are at least three problems,
none of which is found in the vanilla version of less-358.

1. The program checks the LESSCHARDEF environment variable to see if the
file is binary, but ignores it in displaying actual characters.

2. The program ignores line-edit literals specified in .less when these
invoke "high" characters (>127).

3. The program prefaces sequences of one or "high" characters with a
capital "A". This effect only appears on some terminal emulators (rxvt and
PuTTY).


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.$ /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt -fn 6x13 &
(In rxvt:)
2.$ export LESSCHARDEF=8bcccbcc18b95.b   # ASCII charset1
3.Create the following /tmp/lesskey file (the last char is Latin 1
a-grave):

#line-edit
\e[24~1 literal a
\e[24~2 literal `

4.$ /usr/bin/lesskey -o /tmp/less /tmp/lesskey
5.$ /usr/bin/less -k /tmp/less
/usr/share/texmf/doc/help/faq/LaTeX-FAQ-francaise/part1
6.Look for accented characters in the text
7.Press "/" to search, then F12, "1", F12, "2"


Actual Results:  The French accented characters appear normally, except
that each character or character-sequence is preceded by a "A".

The literal "a" is inserted into the search string, but the a-grave does
not appear.



Expected Results:  The French accented characters should be marked as
binary by the LESSCHARDEF setting and should therefore appear as
white-on-black hex sequences in angle brackets. When the characters do
appear, they should not be preceded by an "A" in rxvt. The a-grave should
be inserted into the search string in the same way as the "a".

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