> 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=3Diso_8859_1 or LESSCHARSET=3Dlatin1... it looks ugly in pcvt
> too... the hyphen turns into a script "f". But it looks fine in xterm :)

Hm, the environment on my recently installed system contains HOME,
SHELL, TERM, LOGNAME, USER, PATH, PWD, BLOCKSIZE and TERMCAP.  I
still get "<AD>" for the hyphens.  If I set LESSCHARSET to latin1 in
pccons, I get something which is similar to a 'j'.

Yes, I see it looks fine in xterm as well (if I've set LESSCHARSET
to latin1) ;-)

On further investigation it appears that the nroff on my newly
installed system (laptop) *does* produce 7-bit hyphens, whereas on
the system where I built (and installed) the snapshot, I still get
the 8-bit variant.  Weird.

- H=E5vard