Bug 14278 - man displays man pages with <AD> inserted randomly
Summary: man displays man pages with <AD> inserted randomly
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-07-19 14:24 UTC by mchampig
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-27 13:28:18 UTC

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man-1.5h1-latin1.patch, which fixes the problem here (359 bytes, patch)
2000-07-27 13:28 UTC, Tim Waugh 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description mchampig 2000-07-19 14:24:17 UTC 
I've noticed man pages are displayed with an annoying inverse
<AD> scattered throughout. I've verified this with most of
the terminal emulators (xterm, GNOME term, and rxvt).

It's possible there are odd control characters embedded in the
man pages themselves.
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2000-07-21 18:23:41 UTC 
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-07-27 13:27:15 UTC 
This seems to be because groff is told to use latin1.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-07-27 13:28:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1612 [details]
man-1.5h1-latin1.patch, which fixes the problem here
Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-27 13:34:08 UTC 
Fixed in 1.5h1-7
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