On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> > Another thing I've noticed is that the man pages have a <AD> with
> > inversed video through them at odd points. Which didn't used to
> > appear. It happens on either the console or a telnet client with
> > either vt100, vt220 or xterm, any ideas?
> 
> I think that means "less" doesn't know what to make of the Alt-D=0x83
> character. Try setting LESSCHARSET=latin1 in your environment.

Being the curious sort, I looked it up. That's the way less displays
hex AD when it's not defined in the character set. In iso-latin-1,
0xAD is called a "soft hyphen" (rfc1345).