man: default to ascii

Default to ascii instead of latin1. Otherwise man pages can be displayed
incorrectly. E.g. bullets show as "<B7>".

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c
index f046e24f3..5c1fa2c9d 100644
--- a/miscutils/man.c
+++ b/miscutils/man.c
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *pager, char *man_filename, int man, int level)
         /* "2>&1" is added so that nroff errors are shown in pager too.
          * Otherwise it may show just empty screen */
         cmd = xasprintf(
-                man ? "gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | %s"
+                /* replaced -Tlatin1 with -Tascii for non-UTF8 displays */
+                man ? "gtbl | nroff -Tascii -mandoc 2>&1 | %s"
                     : "%s",
                 pager);
         system(cmd);