woman problem with w3m

[xah lee]

Summary: when using the “woman” to read man page “w3m”, it  
returns gibberish.

pasted below my sig is part of the gibberish output, and some default  
debug info emacs pasted.

  Xah
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∑ http://xahlee.org/

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.nr N -1
.nr D 5
.TH W3M 1 Local
.UC 4
.SH NAME
w3m \- a text based Web browser and pager
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B w3m
[options] [URL or filename]
.PP
Use "w3m -h" to display a complete list of current options.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.ds lq \&"
.ds rq \&"
0==0 .nr N 10
.if \nD==0 .nr D 5
.I
w3m
is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and
Japanese help files and an option menu and can be configured to
use either language. It will display hypertext markup language
(HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local
system, as well as files residing on remote systems. It can
display HTML tables and frames.
In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same manner
as "more" or "less".
Current versions of
.I
w3m
run on
Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800)
and on
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In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0, Carbon Version  
1.6.0)
 of 2007-11-06 on cf-ppc-macosx.usr.sourceforge.jp
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.11
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/ 
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/ 
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-arch i386 - 
arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI - 
DUSE_MAC_TSM''


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WoMan formatting buffer...
woman-parse-numeric-arg: Symbol's function definition is void: ==
call-interactively: End of buffer [6 times]
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