Bug 146315

Summary:	sys-apps/man - removing -Tascii from man.conf no longer forcing man to output only 7bit ascii
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthias Schwarzott <zzam>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	linuxblues, no.friday, utf8
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	44201, 121502, 146365
Bug Blocks:

Description Matthias Schwarzott gentoo-dev

2006-09-04 14:32:49 UTC

I request you to remove the -Tascii from this line in /etc/man.conf:
NROFF          /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc

When the -Tascii is removed the autodetect-mechanism of /usr/bin/nroff comes to work.
For this to work correctly (at least for german locale de_DE@euro) one needs to use >=sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 as the versions before do not know ISO-8859-15 -> -Tlatin1 connection.


Please let this bug be blocked by any issue stopping us from removing -Tascii and letting autodetect-magic of nroff work.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-09-04 15:48:27 UTC

added to 1.6d-r1

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-09-04 15:52:03 UTC

yeah i didnt read Bug 121502 closely enough

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-13 05:18:12 UTC

*** Bug 155005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-02-24 19:00:38 UTC

man-1.6f-r1 drops all -c and -T options by default and forces latest groff so as to avoid the dash funkiness

Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-10 16:16:58 UTC

*** Bug 221191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***