Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145353
man displays garbled characters with en_US.UTF-8
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:05:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83017 says a similar bug was closed, this is probably related to the same problem. Single and double quote characters, as well as grave accents, don't display correctly when I do use man from a ssh shell (TERM is vt100 or vt320). It displays correctly under a KDE term (konsole). A workaround: $ LANG=en_us man groff will display the text for the -N option (word "Don't"), the -P option correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): groff-1.18.1.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man groff 2. look at any word with single quote, double quote or grave accent 3. Actual Results: The -N section reads: Donât instead of Don't... Expected Results: word should read: Don't Additional info:
The actual results paragraph above seems to show the word don't correctly on the web page - but the word is garbled in a VT100 terminal, here's what it looks like, hope this shows up as correctly (showing the wrong characters!) Don't ends up displaying as: Donââ¬â¢t Here's the octal dump: D o n 342 200 231 t [octal] D o n 226 128 153 t [decimal]
Changed to not-a-bug, just discovered that the problem is with the TerraTerm SSH terminal, which can't handle UTF-8 text - not only man, but slrn, mutt, etc all break, so this is nothing to do with groff.
Hello B, thanks for the investigation. I'm happy it's not a fault of groff after all ;) cheers, Jindrich