Would someone please tell me why manpages look like this...

Shingoshi

I've searched Google, and can't seem to find the exact search phrases to find a solution for this. I'm getting all kinds of crazy characters in my manpages, and didn't see this before. Also, my manpages are being displayed with info, not man. I know (suspect) that I need to change something in man.conf, I just don't know what. And please don't tell me to read the manpages, they're too corrupt to read without difficulty.

Sometime ago, some package said something about changing the *groff settings. I don't remember which package, nor which setting. But shortly after that, I started noticing this problem.

Every line begins with; ^[[1m
This is typically followed with variations of either; ^[[22m or ^[[24m

This is what I get from locale;
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

I would like this to be: LANG="en_US.UTF8"
Is this the proper command to change this? localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
I don't want to run the above command, while I'm still uncertain.

And even if I do get rid of the funny character issue, why is info displaying man pages? What if any benefit is there to this? Or is this part of the problem?

Thank you for your assistance!

Shingoshi
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eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

The ^[[1m are ANSI escape sequences, and specifically the 'start bold' sequence.

However, this is weird: Usually nroff should emit backspace character to bold, and not use escape sequences. And the next thing is that 'less' (what pager are you using?) normally gives up on all escape sequences.

Might want to check your /etc/man.conf to make sure

Shingoshi · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: Solved!!!

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

No, I was just trying to cover all the bases and making sure everything falls into place. Normally 'less' is used indeed, and the default behavior for 'less' is to just show escape sequences instead of displaying ANSI.

Glad you got it working!
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