Bug#430913: evince: Evince fails to remember "Print Setup" settings

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:13:30PM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Yeah. In particular, it seems that despite the fact that manpages can be 
> displayed properly using a strictly ASCII character set, the "man" 
> command will generate non-ASCII versions of those characters when run 
> under the en_US.UTF-8 locale setting.  This doesn't work properly at all 
> when displaying in an xterm that isn't configured to display UTF-8.

yes (and it doesn't help that groff changed the semantics of backslashed
codes back/forth a few times over the past few years, making it impossible
to _use_ ASCII even where ASCII is inarguably correct).

> Makes me wonder why, these days, xterm doesn't by default properly 
> display UTF-8 characters.

That's up to the packagers (who in many cases are the same people who
decided to make the default locale change).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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