docs/165249: Multibyte characters in manpages still not displaying properly.

[Artur Skonecki]

>Number:         165249
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Multibyte characters in manpages still not displaying properly.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 17 19:20:10 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Artur Skonecki
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD volt.iem.pw.edu.pl 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 7 21:12:58 CET 2012 ato at volt.iem.pw.edu.pl:/tmp/obj/usr/src/sys/VOLT amd64


	
>Description:
National characters are not displaying properly ( or not displaying at all, depending on $LANG ) when viewed with man.

$ LESSCHARSET="UTF-8" PAGER=less LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" man -d man
-- Using architecture: amd64:amd64
-- Using pager: less
-- Using manual sections: 1:1aout:8:2:3:n:4:5:6:7:9:l
-- Searching PATH for man directories
--   Adding /usr/local/man to manpath
--   Adding /usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding default manpath entries
--   Adding /usr/share/openssl/man to manpath
-- Parsing config file: /usr/local/etc/man.d/perl5.14.2.conf
--   Adding /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/man to manpath
--   Adding /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/perl/man to manpath
-- Parsing config file: /usr/local/etc/man.d/pl-man-doc.conf
-- Using manual path: /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/perl/man
-- Using locale paths: de_DE.UTF-8:de.UTF-8:de:en.UTF-8:.
-- Using standard page width
-- Searching for man
--     Found manpage /usr/local/man/de/man1/man.1
--     Skipping catpage: not found or old
-- Command: /usr/bin/zcat -f /usr/local/man/de/man1/man.1 | tbl | groff -S -P-h -Wall -mtty-char -man -Tascii -P-c | less
	
>How-To-Repeat:
Try browsing preinstalled manpages for different languages. For example:
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" man man
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" man man
	
>Fix:
	


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