From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   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... :p   
      
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