From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 Description of problem: if you call man <prg> in screen it destroys the layout of the man page and makes it unreadable. testet on a 1024x768 fb and via a ssh session. lynx or pine for example work ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. screen 2. man screen or 1. screen man screen Actual Results: you will see a mangled man page unable to proper scroll up and down, not correct line breaks, etc Expected Results: a normal formated man page, like you see when you don't use screen Additional info: it doesn't happen on 7.3.94 beta
Screen's UTF-8 support does not work properly, and so we removed it from 8.0. As you can see if you type 'set', LANG generally is "en_US.UTF-8", which causes the problems you are seeing. export LANG=en_US at the end of ~/.bashrc - this should cause the problem to go away.
Going to evaluate screen-3.9.13 to see if the UTF-8 problems have been fixed (thus, allowing us to include UTF-8 support again).
*** Bug 79099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 75914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
3.9.13 looks promising. It seems to fix the bug (see #65344) which caused us to remove UTF-8 support in the first place.
just when will it be in rawhide ? or in updates for 8.0 ... cause I think without utf8 things like mc, ntsysv and other ncurses based stuff behave a bit strange and are actually unusable.
I'm not sure. For now, you can grab it from: http://people.redhat.com/lhh/screen-3.9.13-2.i386.rpm Since it's not a released version yet, hold off on filing bugs until it makes it into (at least) rawhide.
3.9.13-2 is now in rawhide: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/screen-3.9.13-2.i386.rpm Internal testing reports that this fixes the problem. Reopen if it is still broken.