From: telcontar@duck.com   
      
   On 13.10.2022 at 19:54, Joseph Rosevear scribbled:   
      
   > Anyway, I noticed some differences when using man and less that have   
   > been troubling me.  I didn't post about them sooner, because I   
   > suspected that my troubles were my own fault.   
   >    
   > I solved the problem with less just today.  (I'll post about man    
   > separately.)  I had been using:   
   >    
   >    export PAGER="less -R"   
   >    export METAMAIL_PAGER="less -R"   
   >    export LESSCHARSET=latin1   
   >    
   > although I don't remember exactly why.  I think one or more of these    
   > lines were for the purpose of causing special characters to display    
   > correctly in less.  [...]   
   >    
   > I took these lines out and now less seems to work OK.   
   >    
   > Can anyone explain what happened?  I don't fully understand it, and   
   > it is just complex enough to leave me bamboozled.   
      
   I'm not running Slackware, but given how much time has elapsed since   
   the previous release of Slackware — which is the one I suspect you   
   would have created your script for — and the one you're running now,   
   my money would be on Slackware having in the meantime adopted UTF-8 as   
   the default character encoding [*], whereas the previous release would   
   still have been using the US-centric ISO-8859-1 character encoding.   
      
      
   [*] As just about every other distribution already did almost two   
       decades ago. :p   
      
   --    
   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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