[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-2903743 ] re_syntax.n formats incorrectly on Solaris 8

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Bugs item #2903743, was opened at 2009-11-25 14:09
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Category: 43. Regexp
Group: development: 8.6b1.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Larry W. Virden (lvirden)
Assigned to: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Summary: re_syntax.n formats incorrectly on Solaris 8

Initial Comment:
Platform SPARC Solaris 8

When I run 

man -s n re_syntax

I see the text between CONSTRAINTS and BACK REFERENCES jumbled up with displaying control characters, etc.
This is quite different than what I see with the other Tcl man pages I've viewed.

I am attempting to attach a file with the formatted text in it to this artifact.

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>Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2009-11-26 10:51

Message:
Looks like a bug in nroff that it goes so badly off the rails. Does the
problem show up on Solaris 9? If so, is it possible and practical to
generate the formatted pages there and share them with the Sol8 systems?

I can't be sure about this, but it looks like this is caused by the use of
\N'244' to include an accented character in an input file that is
constrained to be pure ASCII. There is no other even remotely portable way
of expressing it given that the primary market these days uses groff
instead.

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