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man size


With "LANG=C.UTF-8", "man size" writes U+23AA (CURLY BRACKET 
EXTENSION) characters in place of vertical bars (ASCII 0x7C). 
Not only does this Unicode "Miscellaneous Technical" character 
not display properly, it also seems a poor character choice 
for this context.

Possibly not related, after several attempts in a row, 
sometimes up to ten, I see the following error:

$ man size | head
SIZE(1)                      GNU Development Tools                     SIZE(1)



NAME
       size - list section sizes and total size.

SYNOPSIS
       size [-Aâ-Bâ--format=compatibility]
            [--help]
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/size.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 36096.
No manual entry for size
$

--Ken Nellis

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