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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Man-mode showing bytes at line end positions
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:29:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83po76liq4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87608yps4z.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Narendra Joshi on Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:22:12 +0530)

> From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:22:12 +0530
> 
> The values are as follows:
> 
> default-process-coding-system
> (iso-latin-1-unix . iso-latin-1-unix)
> 
> 
> locale-coding-system
> iso-latin-1-unix

That's your problem, right there: your locale is Latin-1, but the man
pages were generated for a UTF-8 locale.  This mismatch is the root
cause of the problem you are having.

The solution for you would be to change your locale to be a UTF-8
locale, i.e. a locale which uses UTF-8 as its codeset.  Then Emacs
will default to UTF-8 when it decodes the man page, and you will see
the hyphen characters instead of binary bytes.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-17 11:48 Man-mode showing bytes at line end positions Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 12:01 ` Yuri Khan
2017-12-17 12:55   ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 15:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-17 18:53       ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 20:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 16:02         ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-22 16:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 17:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 17:52             ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-22 18:29               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-22 19:47                 ` Narendra Joshi

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