> With groff 1.21 and GROFF_NO_SGR=1, 'man man' in the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
> starts off looking like this in less:
>
> MAN(1) Manual pager utils MAN(1)
>
> ^H前
> man - オンラインリファレンスマニュアルのインターフェース
Thanks for finding this! I've missed to test no-sgr mode.
> Given that backspacing over half a character is never a particularly
> sensible thing for a pager to do, I would suggest that we should
> assume that pagers will backspace over a character at a time, as
> less seems to do, and emit a number of backspaces corresponding to
> the number of characters. Does this make sense, or am I missing
> something?
I second your analysis. Can you provide a patch?
Werner
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