Re: doubled backspaces for bold/underline with CJK in no-SGR mode

[Werner LEMBERG]

> With groff 1.21 and GROFF_NO_SGR=1, 'man man' in the ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
> starts off looking like this in less:
> 
> MAN(1)                        Manual pager utils                        MAN(1)
> 
> ^H前
>        man - オンラインリファレンスマニュアルのインターフェース

Thanks for finding this!  I've missed to test no-sgr mode.

> Given that backspacing over half a character is never a particularly
> sensible thing for a pager to do, I would suggest that we should
> assume that pagers will backspace over a character at a time, as
> less seems to do, and emit a number of backspaces corresponding to
> the number of characters.  Does this make sense, or am I missing
> something?

I second your analysis.  Can you provide a patch?


    Werner