<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I doubt this is a pandoc issue (at least with the current release, which may be newer than Debian's).<div><br></div><div>In my man page viewer, the man page generated by pandoc contains the accents.</div><div><br></div><div>The raw man is</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;"><div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[CR]</div>fr<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\-</div>u<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\-</div>kb<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[R]</div>: French with <div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\(lq</div>backwards<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\(rq</div> accent sorting (with
<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[CR]</div>coté<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[R]</div> sorting after <div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[CR]</div>côte<div style="display: inline; color: rgb(160, 32, 240);">\f[R]</div>).</div><div style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;"><br></div><div style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;">Is it possible that your man page viewer doesn't handle UTF-8?</div><div style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 4, 2026, at 2:26 PM, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Package: pandoc<br><br>$ man pandoc<br> o fr-u-kb - French with "backwards" accent sorting (with cote<br> sorting after cote).<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>