[25479] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.2.27: iso_8859-1(7) manual page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Winstein)
Wed Feb 4 18:34:08 2004
Message-Id: <200402042334.i14NY5cr030678@m56-129-30.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:34:05 -0500
From: Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: m56-129-30.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.2.27 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Read the iso_8859-1(7) manual page.
What's wrong:
As viewed by the "man iso_8859-1" command, the manual page terminates
prematurely, after the text "The following table displays the characters
in ISO 8859 Latin-1, which are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7)
manual page." The table is missing.
Also, had the table been present (as it is when ssh-ed into a non-Athena
Debian GNU/Linux machine), it would not have been displayed correctly
in gnome-terminal: all the characters get replaced by a question mark.
The table displays fine in /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.
What should have happened:
The table should have been present. And when correctly present, the
characters should have been rendered correctly in gnome-terminal (as
they are in xterm).
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I tried to debug this, but I got lost in a tangle of nroff/groff. Sorry.
