[git commit] man: default to ascii

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 3 14:14:26 UTC 2014


commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=30f17e9556e9a415616515db738c063159d662a8
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Default to ascii instead of latin1. Otherwise man pages can be displayed
incorrectly. E.g. bullets show as "<B7>".

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
 miscutils/man.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index f046e24..5c1fa2c 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *pager, char *man_filename, int man, int level)
 	/* "2>&1" is added so that nroff errors are shown in pager too.
 	 * Otherwise it may show just empty screen */
 	cmd = xasprintf(
-		man ? "gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | %s"
+		/* replaced -Tlatin1 with -Tascii for non-UTF8 displays */
+		man ? "gtbl | nroff -Tascii -mandoc 2>&1 | %s"
 		    : "%s",
 		pager);
 	system(cmd);


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