Bugzilla Bug 116601

unicode USE flag in man-pages-es makes the manual pages unreadable.

The screenshot demonstrates it:
Ai -> 

unicode USE flag in man-pages-es makes the manual pages unreadable.

The screenshot demonstrates it:
Ai -> á
A(C) -> é
A -> í
A3 -> ó
^HA3 -> ó (bold and italic fonts)
Ao -> ú

I'm using uxterm in the screenshot, and those are my .Xresources settings about
UXTerm:

UXTerm*faceName:         Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
UXTerm*faceSize:         10
UXTerm*cacheDoublesize:  4
UXTerm*cursorBlink:      true
UXTerm*cursorColor:      white
UXTerm*cursorOffTime:    250
UXTerm*cursorOnTime:     300
UXTerm*background:       black
UXTerm*foreground:       #A8A8A8
UXTerm*italicULMode:     true
UXTerm*scrollBar:        true
UXTerm*rightScrollBar:   true
UXTerm*saveLines:        1000
UXTerm*scrollTtyOutput:  false
UXTerm*scrollKey:        true
UXTerm*jumpScroll:       true
UXTerm*multiScroll:      true

According to xfontsel "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" supports unicode (iso10646-1),
and it also happens with

* media-fonts/unifont 
     Available versions:  1.0-r2
     Installed:           1.0-r2
     Homepage:            http://czyborra.com/
     Description:         X11 GNU unicode font

This is not a X related issue, as text mode terminals:
* Setting terminal encoding to UTF-8 ...   [ ok ]

/etc/conf.d/rc
RC_TTY_NUMBER=12
(well, I've configured the logger to display all its information on tty12)

/etc/conf.d/consolefont
CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"
CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-15_to_uni"

and the SAME strange characters as in X are displayed in man pages on ttys.

I'm aware of this, bug upstream and get him fix the encodings.

If you try to read ISO encoded pages in a unicode enviroment you will also get
weird results.

Patches to man are welcome, though.

Cheers,
Ferdy

reported upstream, quoting this bug-report.

Should be fixed in 1.55-r1

Cheers,
Ferdy

*** Bug 130924 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***