From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: In RH8.0, the tclhelp output has garbage in displayed help pages 1mNAME0m scale - Create and manipulate scale widgets 1mSYNOPSIS0m 1mscale 4m22mpathName24m ?4moptions24m? Looks like color/font changing codes that aren't getting interpreted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start tclhelp 2.click Tk/Widgets/scale 3. Actual Results: Garbled help page Expected Results: normal help page Additional info:
Reproduced also in latest 8.3.5-78. As you say, looks like escape codes for bold, etc are appearing the text.
Fixed in tclx-8.3.5-1 in FC devel.