retitle 319952 UTF8 chars butchered by piping man output through col
thanks
Hi Colin!
You wrote:
> Actually, all locale support is still present. The problem is that man
> pages being output to a file or a pipe are now filtered through 'col
> -b', the intent of which was simply:
> o When stdout is not a terminal, man pages will be formatted in
> plain text without the use of backspace or ANSI formatting
> characters.
> Unfortunately, and unintentionally, this clobbers characters that aren't
> printable ASCII. Bah. 'col -b -p -x' is much better, but exhibits some
> minor corruption ("ÜBERSICHT" at the start of a line has some garbage
> before it, probably because col can't handle the overstruck "Ü").
Ah, I see.
> Changing the arguments to col seems to be obviously the right thing to
> do, but beyond that I'm not sure what to do about this. I could reassign
> to bsdmainutils in the hope that col can be changed to deal with UTF-8
> in UTF-8 locales, or I could just disable the col command in the
> pipeline for multibyte locales. The latter would be a shame given that
> it means everyone has to go back to putting explicit 'col -b' in
> makefiles and things again, and the breakage pending a col fix is
> confined to just a few places ...
I think the best way to solve this would indeed be to fix col. Or maybe
it can be replaced by a sed script that rips out the ANSI codes?
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