On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> >Description:
> 	It appears that nroff by default produces output with
> 	latin1 charset.  This is most visible on a pccons console
> 	for the hyphens nroff inserts, which then become 0xad instead
> 	of 0x2d (why? I don't know).  When running e.g. "man su" on
> 	a pccons console, this produces "<AD>" on the display instead
> 	of a hyphen, which looks ugly.

Only if LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 or LESSCHARSET=latin1... it looks ugly in pcvt
too... the hyphen turns into a script "f". But it looks fine in xterm :)
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