From: Wu Y. <ad...@sh...> - 2006-03-23 16:54:46
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Keith Marshall wrote: > Note that, in spite of Yongwei's earlier suggestion that -Tascii might be > a more suitable choice of output encoding than latin1 for most users, I > haven't found this to be the case -- I use code page 850 and export > LESSCHARSET=latin1, and find -Tlatin one gives much better results, using > `man groff_char' as a yardstick. Therefore, I've left the default > setting as it is in the standard UNIX package; if you think ASCII will > work better for you, then add `--with-nroff="nroff -Tascii -mandoc"' and > `--with-neqn="neqn -Tascii"' to the configure options. (Do note that you > need to have groff installed *before* you attempt to configure man, so > you should have the groff_char man page, which includes a table showing > how the entire available character set will be displayed). How about people using CP 932/936/950/..., or even people using directly CP 1252 (it is the case of rxvt; does it work with you `man')? If the program cannot decide the output according to the environment `smartly', I would still suggest using plain ASCII. Best regards, Yongwei |