Re: UTF-8 out-of-the box experience

[Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> "less" (less 358+iso247) is also still broken and completely messes up
> in UTF-8 mode the handling of backspace boldification used by nroff.
> This still distorts the output of any man page. Test case:
> 
>   perl -e 'use utf8; print "a\ba_\bb\n"' | less
> 
> correctly shows a bold "a" and an underlined "b", but
> 
>   perl -e 'use utf8; print "\x{20ac}\b\x{20ac}_\b\x{2203}\n"' | less
> 
> fails to show either a bold euro sign or an underlined there-exists sign.
> (Perl 5.6 or newer required here)

I am working on fixing this issue now (got underlines working, bold is a
little trickier).  Should have a patch later this evening.
	
-- 
Robert

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