From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Rather than interpreting the escape codes in man pages, the escape codes are shown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enter "man tempnam" in a gnome-terminal or xterm Actual Results: Escape codes are displayed, making the man page nearly unreadable. Additional info:
Hm, this works for me ok in gnome-terminal. What locale are you running in? Is this ssh'd into the beta box, or ssh from the beta box to a different system?
This is a clean install of (null), with a pre-existing user. Before logging in to X for the first time, I'd eliminated pretty much all config files except for Galeon's, including .gnome* and .gconf/*
I've also noticed the same problem on my (null) install. Just installed it this morning and tried to do a 'man grep' in both a gnome-terminal and xterm. Both displayed the ESC codes. This is my workstation that I'm physically sitting in front of.
This _may_ have something to do with broader problems described in #71913 and #72589.
This is a "Me to". I saw it after upgrading from 7.3. I saw it in Limbo2 and Null for sure... Don't think I looked at a man page in Limbo1. I tried viewing man pages in gnome-terminal, xterm, uxterm, and konsole and they all have the same problem that esc sequences are displayed as text instead of changing to BOLD and other stuff. Viewing man pages from the linux console works as expected. I tried messing with the TERM variable with no success (linux, vt100, etc)... I even tried using the LANG variable to see if that made a difference (it didn't). I upgraded to version 0.8.19-1 of vte since there was discussion of bugs in that (but I don't think xterm uses that library) and the problem is still there. My /etc/sysconfig/i18n is LANG="en_US". I ran out of things to try. Man is version 1.5j9. Example first few lines of "man rpm". RPM(8) Red Hat Linux RPM(8) ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m rpm - RPM Package Manager
this seems to work in 8.0