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man size
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:52:32 -0600
- Subject: 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