On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:48:33AM -0500, Matt Wozniski wrote: > As you already know, man uses 'col -b -p -x' in its pipeline when piping > the man page to a child process, unless $MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is > specified, and col doesn't handle UTF-8 properly. Because of this, some > man pages are invalid UTF-8 by the time they're done being handled, such > as "man xterm | iconv".
col 8.0.1 was just uploaded to unstable and it now supports multi-byte. The "man xterm | iconv" doesn't emit complaints from iconv anymore, but it may have other issues (#555331). -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>
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