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Description of problem:
less can not show swedish characters (edv) when searching. 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open file with less. less /etc/inputrc
2. Press / to search something
3. Enter an 8-bit character. Like pressing v on a swedish keyboard

	

Actual Results:  It displays garbage instead of the characters expected.

Additional info:

This seems to have been broken i rh70 also. I took the less that came with
rh62 (less-346-2) and recompiled it for rh71 and with this version of less
everything works.

The less-346-2 src package from rh62 is however also a bit broken since you
can not build it as a ordinary user and it writes over files in /usr when
you create the package.

I change the spec file for less-3.4.6 in two places. The make install became:

make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr bindir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin
mandir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}
and in the files section:

%{_mandir}/man1/*

Using %{_mandir} might not be the best, but it works for me.

I don't know if the newer versions of less have the same problems with the
spec file. I tell you this just in case it does. For me the old less is
working good enough.