Weird formatting problems in perldoc perlsec

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#1

When trying to open “perldoc perlsec” I have some weird formatting in the
text, here is an example of what I mean:

“Perl automatically enables a set of special security checks, called
ESC4mtaintESC24
m ESC4mmodeESC24m,
when it detects its program running with differing real and effective
user or
group IDs. The setuid bit in Unix permissions is mode 04000, the
setgid bit mode
02000; either or both may be set. You can also enable taint mode
explicitly by
using the ESC1m-T ESC22mcommand line flag. This flag is
ESC4mstronglyESC24m sugge
sted for server” is anyone else seeing this, I can’t imagine that this is
how it should look it is hard to understand it like this.

#2

I’m seeing the same mangled text throughout perldoc. The escape sequences aren’t having the intended effect. Using Konsole in KDE 3.5.10 on openSUSE 11.1.

#3

Ah, it’s bug 463444,which is reportedly fixed. I can’t tell for sure because I haven’t permission to view that bug. Grmph.>:(

#4

Interesting, neither can I. What could be so sensitive about that bug? I wonder if it’s a bug in bugzilla due to the upgrade last weekend.

#5

a quit workaround is to use perldoc -t Module::Name

#6

or even better, use
export LESS="$LESS -r -f"

#7

I’m seeing the same mangled text throughout perldoc. The escape
sequences aren’t having the intended effect. Using Konsole in KDE 3.5.10
on openSUSE 11.1.

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#8

Ah, it’s 'bug 463444, ’
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463444)which is reportedly
fixed. Not that I can tell for sure because I haven’t permission to view
that bug. Grmph.>:(

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#9

Interesting, neither can I. What could be so sensitive about that bug? I
wonder if it’s a bug in bugzilla due to the upgrade last weekend.

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ken_yap

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#10

a quit workaround is to use perldoc -t Module::Name

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