On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 03:18:17PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi, the following segfaults on Solaris 2.6:
>
> echo x | tr 'x' '\200' | nroff -man
>
> This is output of locale command:
>
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_ALL=
>
> My question is, what do I need to do with those to
> stop nroff from disliking extended ASCII characters?
>
> Thanks, will summarize.
>
> Igor
>
>
Thanks to Kevin Sheenan and Jason Marshall who responded.
It turned out to be a bug introduced in Solaris 2.6,
a bug where nroff can't handle 8bit characters.
It has been previsouly reported to Sun and is in bug
list on sunsolve database.
Igor
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