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-rw-r--r--miscutils/man.c3
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);