From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: In Japanese environment, 'man hexdump' shows weird warnings and doesn't show correctly. Hyphen '-' will be replace to be 'F1' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add LANG=ja_JP.eucJP to /etc/sysconfig/i18n 2. Logout 3. Login 4. Make sure 'env | grep ja_JP.eucJP' 5. Make sure you have man-pages-ja 6. 'man hexdump' from terminal. You can use kterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal. Actual Results: It shows below warnings: /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/tmac/docj.tmac:57: can't find macro file `mdoc/common' /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/tmac/docj.tmac:58: can't find macro file `mdoc/syms' <standard input>:64: warning: numeric expression expected (got `F') <standard input>:205: warning: numeric expression expected (got `F') and '-b' is showed up as 'F1b', '-c' is showed up as 'F1c'. And the descrption in the NAME paragraph doesn't show up. Additional info: zcat /usr/share/man/ja/man1/hexdump.1.gz|LANG=japanese groff -Tnippon -mandoc | less works fine. So this is weird. This problems is in RHL7.2, and doesn't fix with latest man-pages-ja, groff, man combination in 8.0 tree. This is different report from http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56990 so not duplicated.
Can you please test this again with the current beta and groff-1.18.1-1? Thanks, Florian La Roche
I tried it again with beta1 and groff 1.18.1-1. but it's not still fixed. another error and warning are output: /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devnippon/M:5: error: missing code for `u0100..uFFFF' troff: warning: can't find font `M' /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devnippon/G:5: error: missing code for `u0100..uFFFF' troff: warning: can't find font `G' <standard input>:47: warning: can't find character with input code 204 ... And manpage isn't still readable.
See also Bug 79102 for a potentially related issue with solution.
The above output is fixed and multibyte support should now be correctly enabled plus there have been bug-fixes with japanese html recently. Can you please test groff-1.18.1-5 or newer and let me know if this is resolving all issues? greetings, Florian La Roche
groff-1.18.1-7 seems to work.