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. ***