Grant wrote:

> I've emerged xman.
> The program dialogue box runs ok but the man page output is full of
> garbage
>
>
> This is a small part of the dump after prog terminated :
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `0'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `151'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `135'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `140'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `146'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `11'
> eqn:/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2:23: invalid input character code `24'
>
>
> I tried :-
>
> USE="debug xprint" emerge xman
> but that didn't help either
>
>
> Any ideas ?

Just a wild guess, but are your character encoding settings correct? As I
understand it - and I could be wrong, of course - the developers tend to
favor UTF-8 for /man/ pages, and if you've set up your X11 environment for
something else, then you would indeed get to see all kinds of garbage on
your screen when viewing a /man/ page.

Just my two cents worth, but then again they are Eurocents and according to
the current dollar course they'd be worth more than dollarcents...

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Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)