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Bug 72125 - perldoc prints wrong characters in UTF-8 environment
Summary: perldoc prints wrong characters in UTF-8 environment
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chip Turner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 72630 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 67218 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-21 10:01 UTC by Harald Hoyer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-10-30 13:24:41 UTC
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Description Harald Hoyer 2002-08-21 10:01:15 UTC 
SSIA
Comment 1 Chip Turner 2002-08-22 17:59:42 UTC 
what should it print instead?  I'm no *roff expert.  if you can suggest what it
should be doing, I can fix it, but not without knowing the exact problem.
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2002-08-23 11:18:26 UTC 
well, e.g.
$ perldoc open
gives me an ugly formatted screen in a UTF-8 capable terminal, where I can see
the escape sequences...
Comment 3 Gordon Messmer 2002-08-25 17:48:23 UTC 
This may be related to bug 71913.  Perhaps the problem lies in the "less"
package?  I first saw this in (null), someone should see what's changed since
the second beta.
Comment 4 Chip Turner 2002-08-29 18:18:02 UTC 
the issue is inside of groff, it seems.  florian is looking into it.
Comment 5 Florian La Roche 2002-09-01 07:38:59 UTC 
Either set an option to not use the new ansi escaping in groff or add an
option to the pager to display them correctly like done in man ("less -isr")

Florian La Roche
Comment 6 Chip Turner 2002-09-01 22:02:28 UTC 
*** Bug 72630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Chip Turner 2002-09-03 00:49:39 UTC 
fixed in rawhide, less -isr now used as default perl pager
Comment 8 Wade Minter 2002-09-05 17:58:59 UTC 
I just downloaded -51 from rawhide, and the problem is still there.  I've done
everything except reboot the box.  

Curiously enough, if I run "less -isr /tmp/filename" while perldoc is open, I
see the correct output.

Do I need to get another package in addition to perl-5.8.0-51.i386.rpm, or is
this not completely fixed?
Comment 9 Chip Turner 2002-09-05 20:32:43 UTC 
this is fixed in our latest internal build, -55, but hasn't made it to rawhide
yet.  will investigate why it isn't there.
Comment 10 Rob McMillin 2002-12-30 14:50:41 UTC 
Re comment 3, I would go so far as to say it's in fact a duplicate of bug 71913.
Comment 11 Scott R. Godin 2003-01-21 22:49:17 UTC 
line 584 in perldoc: 

changed
    my $cmd = catfile($bindir, $pod2man) . " --lax $file | $opt_n -man";

to
    my $cmd = catfile($bindir, $pod2man) . " --lax $file | $opt_n -man -c";

problem with escape sequences being viewable in less went away.

(by the way my env var for LESS = "CegMS" )

don't know if this is THE solution, but it's a workable one. :-)
Comment 12 Chip Turner 2003-02-20 17:43:22 UTC 
can anyone confirm if they are still having difficulties with the latest
rawhide?  I'm not seeing this problem any longer
Comment 13 Harald Hoyer 2003-10-30 13:24:41 UTC 
seems to be fixed :)
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