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Bug 75193 - problems searching for non alphabetic characters in unicode locale
Summary: problems searching for non alphabetic characters in unicode locale
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-05 09:50 UTC by Michael Wardle
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-11-22 21:44:46 UTC
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Description Michael Wardle 2002-10-05 09:50:40 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
When viewing a manual page using less as the pager, I like to search
for command parameters by typing: slash-hyphen-flag (such as /-N).
In Red Hat 7, this worked, but after a clean install of Red Hat 8, it
does not.

There are also problems searching for other non-alphabetic characters
such as single quotes.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
358-28

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man wget
2. /-N
	

Actual Results:  less displays the error message "Pattern not found"

Expected Results:  cursor is moved to the next instance of "-N"

Additional info:

I notice that Red Hat 8 now uses the Unicode character set in many
places by default.  I tried changing $LANG from en_AU.UTF-8 (this
was selected when I chose English-Australia as the default language
during installation) to en_AU, and I was again able to search for
special characters such as the hyphen.

The same problem appears to exist in the equivalent en_US locales.
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2002-11-04 11:15:02 UTC 
not a bug in less, but in man/nroff (try man -P more manpage to see that the 
same occurs with more)
Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2002-11-26 13:44:23 UTC 
groff-1.18.1-1 or newer should have a patch that changes the hyphen
character, so that you can search it in "less" again.

greetings,

Florian La Roche
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