Bug 73897 - man pages look terrible
Summary: man pages look terrible
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: beta3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-13 04:09 UTC by Joshua Jensen
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-22 17:31:36 UTC
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Description Joshua Jensen 2002-09-13 04:09:32 UTC
Description of Problem:

I've noticed terrible looking man pages, with lots of strange characters. "man
lv" is just one example.  The man pages look worst in the new Gnome2 terminal,
but also look poor in most terminal emulators (even 7.3 emulators).

I've done a default install, and /etc/sysconfig/i18n shows:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

stock Psyche, before re-spin

How Reproducible:

"man lv"

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Must be in some sort of terminal emulator; Gnome2 terminal especially
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:

SYNOPSIS

       lv, lgrep
       lv bh
       lv bV
       lv [b[+]acdfgiklmnqsuvz]
            [bAcodingbsystem] [bIcodingbsystem] [bKcodingbsystem]
            [bOcodingbsystem] [bPcodingbsystem] [bDcodingbsystem]
            [bSsseq] [bSrseq] [bSbseq] [bSuseq] [bShseq]
            [bTnumber] [bWwidth] [bHheight] [bEbeditorb] [b+]
            [b] (grep pattern) [files ...]


Expected Results:

something much cleaner

Additional Information:
	
I haven't seen man pages look bad in virtual consoles... so it seems more X related.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-01-22 17:31:36 UTC
I can't reproduce this with a stock psyche


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