Hi Steven, > > I use this version, unaltered: > > $ par version > > par 1.53.0 > > $ par version > 1.52-i18n.4
That ‘i18n’ smells given the nature of the other patch I found earlier. > $ pacman -Qi par > Name : par > Version : 1.52-8 > Description : Paragraph reformatter > Architecture : x86_64 > URL : http://www.nicemice.net/par/ Assuming Manjaro is just picking this up from Arch Linux, I think this is the shell script which builds the package. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=par In particular, source=('http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152.tar.gz' 'http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch') Attempting to retrieve the patch times out for me on the French IPv4 address. I didn't find it anywhere else. I did find NixOS also pulls it in. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/text/par/default.nix patches = [ # A patch by Jérôme Pouiller that adds support for multibyte # charsets (like UTF-8), plus Debian packaging. (fetchpatch { url = "http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch";; sha256 = "0alw44lf511jmr38jnh4j0mpp7vclgy0grkxzqf7q158vzdb6g23"; }) ]; Can you try searching par again, this time with file /usr/bin/par env LC_ALL=C egrep -boa 'seems not configured' /usr/bin/par -- Cheers, Ralph.
