Thank you for your message, Maurice,
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
In other words, '¾' ('z' with caret above) becomes M->, '¹' ('s' with caret above) becomes M-9, 'æ' ('c' with apostrophe above) becomes M-f ...
What system are you using ?
I'm using dec-osf-4.0b, that is Digital Unix 4.0b running on Alpha processor (patched). (Documentation translated is from gpc-20011123 dist, but I suppose that's irrelevant for the case.)
I see such silly things when I try to use ispell on a french text with iso-8859-1 accented characters if I do not give the option -Tnroff (it is an ispell coming from emtexgi on windows)
I guess this happens because /usr/bin/more on my system is not 8-bit-clean, it tries to interpret non-ASCII chars as M-<something>.
Unfortunatelly, with GNU less (version 358) I don't get perfect results either, although it seems less confusing, giving hex value of the character:)
-------- nroff -man gpc.hr.1 | less ------------------------------------ ...
OPIS Ova man stranica ne sadr<BE>i previ<B9>e informacija o GNU Pascalu jer nestruk tu- riran format man stranice nije prikladan za dokumentiranje tako velikog programa kao <B9>to je GNU Pascal. Relevantne informacije mo<BE>ete prona<E6> i u GNU Pascal priru<E8>niku koji je raspolo<BE>iv u Texinfo formatu i formatima proivedenima iz njega, kao npr. HTML, Info i DVI. Za gledanje Info dokumen- ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, I guess the task would be to convince ``more'' or at least ``less'' to pass latin-2 (iso8859-2) characters in 8-bit-clean manner.
Maybe this can be done with some environment variable?
Thanks for help, Mirsad
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