Bug 80931 - XTerm drops hyphens in man pages
Summary: XTerm drops hyphens in man pages
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 80030
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-02 15:05 UTC by J. J. Ramsey
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:50:51 UTC
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Description J. J. Ramsey 2003-01-02 15:05:54 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
If I try to view a man page in XTerm, most of the hyphens, especially those that
are part of option flags (i.e. -f or --foo) are invisible.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "man less" in an XTerm
2. Scroll down to the OPTIONS section.

    

Actual Results:  The hyphens in the options flags are replaced by spaces.

Expected Results:  The hyphens in the options flags should be visible.

Additional info:

This seems to be a UTF-8 issue. If NROFF in /etc/man.config is changed to
"/usr/bin/nroff -c -Tlatin1 -mandoc", the problem goes away.

gnome-terminal is not affected by this bug.
Comment 1 Michael Lee Yohe 2003-01-02 16:20:37 UTC 
See Bug 80030 for a solution.  I have also filed Bug 80936 as a feature request.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2003-01-07 14:08:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80030 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:51 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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