Bug 148735

Summary: KHelpCenter doesn't handle \*q formatting symbol correctly
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: P. Levine <nsane457>
Component: manAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description P. Levine 2007-08-11 06:07:20 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          GCC 4.2.0 (Gentoo 4.2.0 p1.4), Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu, Thread model: posix
OS:                Linux

When opening the "evdev.4x" manpage in KHelpCenter the '\*q' formatting symbol appears as '34'. For example:

SYNOPSIS
Section '34'InputDevice'34'
  Identifier '34'devname'34'
  Driver '34'evdev'34'
  Option '34'Device'34'   '34'devpath'34'


Using "man" in the console it's rendered correctly:

SYNOPSIS
       Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "evdev"
         Option "Device"   "devpath"
Comment 1 Burkhard Lück 2008-07-25 13:30:37 UTC
I confirm, that in recent trunk and stable compiled from sources and in kubuntu hardy 3.5.9 the formatting symbol '\*q' is appears as '34'.

I think this is not a khelpcenter bug, but a bug in kioslave kio_man.

See also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147237
with a similar rendering problem
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2008-07-25 14:35:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147237 ***