Bug 80544
Summary: | Viewing manpages unusable for technical workstation purpose. | ||||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Peter van Egdom <p.van.egdom> | ||||||
Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 9 | CC: | michael.wardle, mitr | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:50:40 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Bug Blocks: | 79578 | ||||||||
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Description
Peter van Egdom
2002-12-27 20:22:41 UTC
Created attachment 88953 [details]
Screenshot of garbled manpage characters
Section A shows that old X apps like xterm have this feature.
Section B shows that new X apps like konsole have this feature.
Hmm.. I changed my KDE 'konsole' font to "Lucidatypewriter". With this font the example I gave with "man snmpwalk" makes at least the manpage a lot more easy to read. Strange, however, that a default xterm with it's unaliased fonts has trouble with the - character in "man snmpwalk". I reported some problems with the hyphen character ("-") in bug 75193. I imagine it would be useful to know which man pages are affected in the same way as snmpwalk(1), whether snmpwalk was provided by a Red Hat package, and which version of that package you have installed. I assume your locale or language is set to use Unicode/UTF-8. What are the values of LC_ALL and LANG? I have no authority to ask these questions, I'm just trying to help. Feel free to ignore me. :-) Here's some information of my internationalisation settings : [peterve@powermate peterve]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="nl_NL.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="nl_NL.UTF-8:nl_NL:nl:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" If I do a "man ls" in an xterm, I also have the problem of the missing "-" characters. When I'm doing the same command in a virtual console, the "-" characters are, however, displayed properly. The SNMP package is the one supplied with Phoebe "net-snmp-5.0.6-9". Created attachment 89574 [details]
ascii screenshot of man problems
This is what I get with phoebe1 + groff-1.18.1-7 ( the second part is probaly
screen running on VT1, I am not sure ). The hyphens in SYNOPSIS are either
missing or corrupt.
Looks like the same thing as bug #80847. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80847 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |