in /etc/man.pages NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc that why man is unreadable for localized man pages. must be use there NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -c -mandoc and check for other localized man pages
Huh, illegal? <snip> case "`exec 2>/dev/null ; locale charmap`" in UTF-8) T=-Tutf8 ;; ISO-8859-1) T=-Tlatin1 ;; IBM-1047) T=-Tcp1047 ;; *) </snip> The default value is just fine for en_US; if you are using UTF-8 then it's covered by http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml#doc_chap2, if you are using something else then ask the translators to document this in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ru/guide-localization.xml. Not a man bug.
man nroff <snip> The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. Only ascii, latin1, utf8, and cp1047 are valid arguments for the -T option, selecting the output encoding emitted by grotty, groff's TTY output device. If an invalid or no -T option is given, nroff checks the current locale to select a default output device. It first tries the locale program, then the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG, and finally the LESSCHARSET environment variable. </snip>
well, if there is NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc in /etc/man.conf when there is no matter to values of LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG, and finally the LESSCHARSET. If there is NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc (no -Tascii) in /etc/man.conf and when $ LESSCHARSET="latin1" man ls works fine. In case of KOI8-R locale -T option mustn't be used or used latin1.
(In reply to comment #3) > In case of KOI8-R locale -T option mustn't be used or used latin1. So set it as you need, there's no illegal parameter in there.
