Breezy: Manpage bold font is unreadable.

[Erik Christiansen]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:12:14AM -0400, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Erik Christiansen <erik at dd.nec.com.au> wrote:
> >It looks like the man reader's bold font is just a primitive pixel copy,
> >making many characters just rectangular blobs.
> >
> 
> In my case, the "rectangular blobs" you mentioned
> disappeared after I did
> --------------------------------
> export LC_ALL="C"
> --------------------------------
> (In my case it was a locale related problem)

Thanks, but that didn't help in this case. Though the environment
variable was not set, we did have:

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

Incidentally, I can work around it as simply as:

man bash | less

This suggests that the primitive pixel copied font is not a "col -b"
issue.

I don't suppose you know of a way to list the relevant fonts which are
installed on your machine?

Erik