Description of Problem: M-x man now creates pages with a lot of carriage control (or color contorl) characters embedded in it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 21.4.8-14, but maybe it's man or some configuration info that's changed. How Reproducible: Trivial, for me. It happens on two different null installations, both when xemacs is using an X Window and when xemacs is invoked with "-nw" Steps to Reproduce: 1. start xemacs 2. M-x man 3. man Actual Results: [[1mNAME^[[0m Expected Results: NAME Additional Information:
Same problem in emacs, I'm suspecting groff (since installing the old groff works just fine...). Florian?
man started using a different pager, or something like that (mentioned on a mailing list; this could be the reason?)
Might also depend on bug 71646 Florian La Roche
Yes, it's the same problem. Both work if you install groff from RHL 7.3 and do no other changes.
Are they calling groff directly or calling "man"? If groff is called and utf8 is enabled, groff currently does not switch to it automatically, but you need to set "-Tutf8" on the command line. Is this fixing it? Then we need to think about a "good" fix for this problem... Thanks, Florian La Roche
Same problem as the other bug, duping this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71646 ***