Description of problem: man seems to save formatted manual pages, which it caches in /var/cache/man, in the character set of the current locale instead of using UTF-8. This causes problems if some user with locale A formats a manual page and subsequently a different user with locale B wants to display the same page without using the -c switch to man. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.6d-1.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: # echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 # man -c ls Formatting page, please wait... q # bzcat /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2 > ls.a # LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 # man -c ls Formatting page, please wait... q # bzcat /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2 > ls.b # diff ls.a ls.b Actual results: ls.a was saved in UTF-8, ls.b was saved in ISO8859-1 Expected results: both should have been saved in UTF-8, and been converted (if necessary) to the locale on the fly only on displaying them.
Could you please attach your configure file (/etc/man.config)?
Created attachment 143664 [details] man.config
When I tried to reproduce this bug on Fedora 7 I noticed that - /var/cache/man/cat1/ is always empty - the "-c" switch is not documented in man man or man --help Can you still (with Fedora 7 or 8) reproduce this bug?
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