When I run: # export LC_ALL="ja_JP.eucJP" # export LANG="ja_JP.eucJP" # man bash ... the output is illegible. "man" issues this command to produce the manpage: sh -c (cd "/usr/share/man/ja" && (echo ".ll 10.4i"; echo ".nr LL 10.4i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat '/usr/share/man/ja/man1/bash.1'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj | /usr/bin/less) The same bug happens for s/eucJP/EUC-JP/ or .../UTF-8/. The manpages are positively written in EUC-JP, though. Happens with both the latest and previous stable man-pages-ja. # grep -i ja /etc/locale.gen ja_JP UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 Reproducible: Always # emerge --info man groff man-pages-ja Portage 2.1.11.50 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.5 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2520M_CPU_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 4022828 total, 1918912 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 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Did you invoked your terminal with LANG="ja_JP.EUC-JP"? If not, it is expected that the terminal cannot decode man's output properly. # But anyway, I personally recommend to use man-db instead. sys-apps/man's Japanese patch is quite dated.
LANG has no effect, but when I run: $ export LC_ALL="ja_JP.EUC-JP" $ xterm then in the new terminal I see "man bash" in correct Japanese. I didn't know running the xterm with ja_JP locale was necessary, thanks for the hint. Also, please bump man-pages-ja to -r1 and change pkg_postinst() appropriately. It currently instructs to change LANG and doesn't mention the need for a new terminal.
(I take back the new terminal warning - that's just my faulty brain; ordinary people will remember that UTF-8 is not EUC-JP.:) )
