Steps to reproduce: 1. If UTF-8 locale isn't yet defined, run this as root: localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 2. Set the locale, open a new terminal and run man: export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 xterm man tar 3. Type '/-' or '/-z' or some other sequence including '-'. In other locales it would highlight the corrsponding text area, but with UTF-8 the '-' character is not recognized. I think, this is because the hyphen used in the manual pages rendered by man is not the same character as the one generated by pressing the '-' key. Also, in some manual pages (e.g.: /usr/man/man1/openvt.1.gz), an invalid byte sequence is displayed instead of hyphens (usually represented by question marks in the terminal window). Those pages look ok when viewed by less (e.g.: less /usr/man/man1/openvt.1.gz) and it is possible to search for '-' in less. Only the way how they are rendered by man is affected.
Works for me with man-1.5k-r1 and tar-1.13.25-r3. Can you update, try and report, too?
I already have the same versions. tar version is not important, because the problem is encountered in (almost) every manual page, tar was just en example. This is also not an error in the manual page itself, because it can be correctly viewed by less. Maybe it is a configuration problem? Did you change anything in your /etc/man.conf? I'm using the original config file from the latest man package: ----------------------------------------------------------------- # # Generated automatically from man.conf.in by the # configure script. # # man.conf from man-1.5k # # For more information about this file, see the man pages man(1) # and man.conf(5). # # This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used # when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat # pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored, # and to map each PATH element to a manpath element. # It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.] # The format is: # # MANBIN pathname # MANPATH manpath_element [corresponding_catdir] # MANPATH_MAP path_element manpath_element # # If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir # (so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs). # This is the traditional Unix setup. # Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions # of /usr/.../man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/.../catx/page.x. # The keyword FSSTND will cause this behaviour. # Certain versions of the FHS recommend putting formatted versions of # /usr/.../share/man/[locale/]manx/page.x into # /var/cache/man/.../[locale/]catx/page.x. # The keyword FHS will cause this behaviour (and overrides FSSTND). # Explicitly given catdirs override. # # FSSTND FHS # # This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc., # and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors. # # MANBIN /usr/local/bin/man # # Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields # MANPATH /usr/share/man MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man MANPATH /usr/local/man MANPATH /usr/man # # Uncomment if you want to include one of these by default # #MANPATH /opt/teTeX/man #MANPATH /usr/lib/perl5/man #MANPATH /usr/share/perl5/man #MANPATH /usr/share/tcl-8.0/man #MANPATH /usr/share/tk-8.0/man #MANPATH /usr/share/tix-4.1/man #MANPATH /usr/share/coas/man #MANPATH /usr/kerberos/man # # Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping # # If people ask for "man foo" and have "/dir/bin/foo" in their PATH # and the docs are found in "/dir/man", then no mapping is required. # # The below mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is # in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting # lots of other nearby files and directories. # MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/share/man MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/share/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/share/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin /usr/share/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/X11 /usr/X11R6/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/mh /usr/share/man # # NOAUTOPATH keeps man from automatically adding directories that look like # manual page directories to the path. # #NOAUTOPATH # # NOCACHE keeps man from creating cache pages ("cat pages") # (generally one enables/disable cat page creation by creating/deleting # the directory they would live in - man never does mkdir) # #NOCACHE # # Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when # NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1"; # not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output. # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option. # TROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc JNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj EQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tps NEQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1 JNEQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tnippon TBL /usr/bin/gtbl # COL /usr/bin/col REFER /usr/bin/refer PIC /usr/bin/pic VGRIND GRAP PAGER /usr/bin/less -is CAT /usr/bin/cat # # The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy. # When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same # text twice. (But compressed pages compare unequal.) # CMP /usr/bin/cmp -s # # Compress cat pages # COMPRESS /bin/gzip COMPRESS_EXT .gz # # Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified # and the MANSECT environment variable is not set. # MANSECT 1:8:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o # # Default options to use when man is invoked without options # This is mainly for the benefit of those that think -a should be the default # Note that some systems have /usr/man/allman, causing pages to be shown twice. # #MANDEFOPTIONS -a # # Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension # The command given must act as a filter. # .gz /bin/gunzip -c .bz2 /bin/bzip2 -c -d .z .Z /bin/zcat .F .Y -----------------------------------------------------------------
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