Re: 4.12.91 - info thinks man-page lines are longer than 78 chars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:21:29 +0200
> From: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> Using version 4.12.91, when info does not find an Info document and 
> falls back to a man page, info sometimes puts backslashes in or 
> before column 78 (seldom in column 79), even though none of the 
> lines exceed 78 characters.

Are you on a system whose locale specifies some multibyte encoding
(e.g., UTF-8)?  If so, this could be due to line length miscalculation
in those lines which include multibyte sequences that are eventually
displayed using less columns than the length of the original multibyte
sequence.