Re: Man-mode showing bytes at line end positions

[Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>]

Thanks, that fixed it. :)

Narendra Joshi
On 22 Dec 2017 23:59, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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.
>
>