[PATCH] man: default to ascii

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Sun Mar 2 23:56:59 UTC 2014


Default to ascii instead of latin1. Otherwise man pages will be displayed
incorrectly on UTF-8 terminals. E.g. bullets show as "<B7>".

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
---
 miscutils/man.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index d3e832b..7c6f737 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ 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"
+		man ? "gtbl | nroff -Tascii -mandoc 2>&1 | %s"
 		    : "%s",
 		pager);
 	system(cmd);
-- 
1.9.0



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