POD docs and ANSI escapes

[Sisyphus]

Hi,
On my linux box 'perldoc' (but not 'man') is failing to interpret the
ANSI escapes. How do I remedy this ?

I'm seeing:
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
instead of:
NAME

(Is this answered in the faq somewhere ? I have a feeling it is, but
couldn't find it.)

Cheers,
Rob

 

[James Willmore]

Hi,
On my linux box 'perldoc' (but not 'man') is failing to interpret
the ANSI escapes. How do I remedy this ?

I'm seeing:
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
instead of:
NAME

(Is this answered in the faq somewhere ? I have a feeling it is, but

couldn't find it.)

The "quick fix" is to run perldoc with the '-t' option.

I tend to remember having the same issue, but it was a _long_ time
ago. I _think_ you _may_ have to change the language setting to
something more "sane" (like en_US). Do an 'echo $LANG' if in bash to
see what it's set to now. However, I could be wrong about this.

HTH

--
Jim

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[Steve Grazzini]

Hi,
On my linux box 'perldoc' (but not 'man') is failing to interpret
the ANSI escapes. How do I remedy this ?

I'm seeing:
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
instead of:
NAME

(Is this answered in the faq somewhere ? I have a feeling it is, but

couldn't find it.)

The "quick fix" is to run perldoc with the '-t' option.

You can also set the LESS environment variable to "-r".

 

[Sisyphus]

You can also set the LESS environment variable to "-r".

Thanks guys.

Cheers,
Rob