Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] non-printable characters in mlterm

[B W. <ya...@gm...>]

On 8/16/15, hosein sadeqzade <h_s...@ou...> wrote:

> I found mlterm the best tool to show Persian man pages but it seems that it
> doesn't have needed ability to render non-printable characters like Zero
> Width Space and RTL/LTR markup and returns their code (see attached image).
> This is not a font issue since mlterm repeats this behavior for all fonts.

I'm pretty sure the <U200C> stuff comes from less. As a test, try:

MANPAGER=cat man explodepkg

If that looks correct, then all you have to do is find a pager that
handles the unicode characters that less isn't handling... there's a
pager called 'most' that might do a better job.

"RTL/LTR markup" means Persian is a bidirectional language, right? You
might look for a pager that lists "bidi support" as a feature.