As the current version of groff (groff-1.19.2-r1) does no support the manpages stored in UTF-8 (I know that it can output to UTF-8 devices the pages in non UTF-8 encodings, but this is quite the opposite case), I think it is a good idea to add the package groff-utf8 from http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html that solves the issue with manpages stored in UTF-8 at least to Testing branch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up gentoo as described in utf8 - howto to locale ru_RU.UTF-8 2.run man 3.set -T option for nroff to smth like -Tutf8 or -Tlatin1 or -Tascii Actual Results: if -Tutf8: double conversion to utf-8 ocurs and text is corrupt if -Tlatin1: most characters are not converted therefore displayed properly (don't forget that terminal is set up for UTF-8 and works ok with it) if -Tascii: the escape sequences are shown instead of the characters themselves Expected Results: Man should display the UTF-8 pages correctly groff-utf8 solves the issues with utf8 in the neatest possible way today. I hope it becomes the part of groff sometime. Unfortunately I'm new to Gentoo and don't know how to make ebuilds yet.
Well, maybe the guy should focus on getting UTF8 support fixed upstream. :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 126361 ***
Newer Groff is in Eaedificāta Repository. http://www.ffta.host.sk/Eaedificata/ The appropriate setting in /etc/man.conf should be: NROFF /usr/bin/preconv | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
