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This sounds like a problem with your pager, that is used to scroll the output of man pages in the terminal. Do accents appear correctly on other manpages in yo
by enriquto 5y ago
This sounds like a problem with your pager, that is used to scroll the output of man pages in the terminal. Do accents appear correctly on other manpages in your system? If I recall correctly, on macos catalina I had to set my locale variable LC_CTYPE (and not LOCALE) so that the less pager recognized the accents.
- da39a3ee 5y agoI don't think it's a pager problem for the following reasons: - If I do `man help2manOutput | cat` then it does not page, but I still see `a` and `a(R)` in place of the desired unicode characters - `less help2manOutput` renders them correctly - In general I have no problem viewing unicode characters in less: I'm familiar with env vars such as LESS and PAGER.
- enriquto 5y agoThis is not the most appropriate place for this sort of fine-grained debugging. I'd suggest to try your generated manpage on another computer to see if it displays correctly. The only thing that I can say is that "it works for me" but of course this answer is not useful :) The main site of development for help2man seems to be this: https://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man https://salsa.debian.org/bod/help2man I'm sure they'll accept pull requests that fix problems. Happy hacking!