My current-language-environment is "UTF-8" and every time I do M-x man to get a new manpage, I get the error

Man-softhyphen-to-minus: Args out of range: "UTF-8", 0, 6

Here's a patch (although this is sent with gmail - don't ask - and it might be mangled beyond recognition):

diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el

index 4b23530..24daca1 100644

--- a/lisp/man.el

+++ b/lisp/man.el

@@ -1177,7 +1177,8 @@ See the variable `Man-notify-method' for the different notification behaviors."

;; \255 is SOFT HYPHEN in Latin-N. Versions of Debian man, at

;; least, emit it even when not in a Latin-N locale.

(unless (eq t (compare-strings "latin-" 0 nil

- current-language-environment 0 6 t))

+ current-language-environment

+ 0 (min 6 (length current-language-environment)) t))

(goto-char (point-min))

(let ((str "\255"))

(if enable-multibyte-characters