Variable: Man-coding-system

Man-coding-system is a customizable variable defined in man.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

Coding-system to decode output from the commands run by man.

If this is nil, man will use locale-coding-system.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 26.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/man.el.gz
;; This is for people who have UTF-8 encoded man pages in non-UTF-8
;; locales, or who use Cygwin 'man' command from a native MS-Windows
;; build of Emacs.
(defcustom Man-coding-system nil
  "Coding-system to decode output from the commands run by `man'.
If this is nil, `man' will use `locale-coding-system'."
  :type 'coding-system
  :version "26.1")