In an UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_US.utf8): $ echo $'\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc' | less # less-490 <C3><A4><C3><B6><C3><BC> Expected behaviour: $ echo $'\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc' | less # less-488 äöü
Reported upstream, and I've got the following answer (reproduced here with permission from Mark Nudelman): "The web page http://greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html always lists the current released version and the current beta version (if any). All changes to this page are also announced on the less mailing list. Gentoo should be using less-487 as listed on that page. Various testing versions, sometimes with deliberate misfeatures, may be added to and deleted from the directory, but none of these should be used unless they are mentioned in the index page."
Upstream also says that less-491 is not announced and should not be used.
Why is it still opened? less-490 is not in portage and probably it's not reproducible with other versions. at least 494 works properly.
bump. it seems upstream removed all versions > 487 from that page and gnu mirrors. and ~amd64 version are unfetcheable without using gentoo mirrors.
Current versions should not be affected
