================================================================ Dear Bug Team! This is a very low priority fix. Running M-x man, I noticed a lot of unicode characters wherever, say, an apostrophe should appear. I determined to make these go away, and decided that adding "-E latin1" to the switches passed to "man" would do the trick. Instead of just setq'ing Manual-switches in my init file, I decided to use customize. But the defcustom definition for that variable allows you to either set it to nil, or to a single string. That's great if you just want to pass a single argument, but "-E latin1" is two arguments, and passing it as a single string will not work (I now realize I could just use the single option "-Elatin1", but in the general case of wanting to specify more than one option, my objection still stands). Converting the defcustom for Manual-switches to be just a standard repeating list of strings should be correct: --- man.el 2007-06-16 23:49:56.000000000 -0400 +++ man.el.new 2007-06-16 23:50:05.000000000 -0400 ＠＠ -51,8 +51,7 ＠＠ (defcustom Manual-switches nil "List of switches to the man program." -:type '(choice (list (string :tag "switches")) - (const :tag "none" nil)) +:type '(repeat string) :group 'man) (defcustom Manual-mode-hook nil man.el is in the edit-utils package. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux vernadsky 2.6.15.7 #1 SMP Sat Sep 30 10:21:42 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-database=berkdb' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--infopath=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--prefix=/usr' '--dynamic' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--with-pop' '--with-file-coding' '--pdump' '--with-system-malloc' '--with-gtk' '--with-gnome' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.19/i486-linux-gnu/gnome-mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages' 'i486-linux-gnu' XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i486-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /build/buildd/xemacs21-21.4.19 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -Wshadow Compiler version: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-20ubuntu1) Compiler specs file: specs. Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: no - User chose not to use GNU allocators. Need to guess glibc1/2/etc here Window System: Using GTK menubars. Using GTK scrollbars. Using GTK dialog boxes. Using GTK native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for LDAP. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for file coding. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Mail: Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval. Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new portable dumper. 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