[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50283] `help sym` from symbolic package results in corrupt "less" output

[Mingye Wang]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #50283 (project octave):

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>> pkg load symbolic
>> help sym
Use of uninitialized value in lc at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/utf8_heavy.pl line
123.
'sym' is a function from the file
C:address@hidden

 -- Constructor on @sym: X = sym (Y)
 -- Constructor on @sym: X = sym (Y, ASSUMESTR)
[cursor goes here]


A few 'f's ahead, some text gets skipped (compare this to the correct comments
in sym.m from the package):


[identical part omitted]

 -- Constructor on @sym: X = sym (Y)
 -- Constructor on @sym: X = sym (Y, ASSUMESTR)

     A matrix can be input:
          sym ([1 2; 3 4])
(true)[another f ahead]
ymbol：
          x = sym ('x', 'positive')
[another f ahead]: for discussion of the
     details

     See also: syms, assumptions, @sym/assume, @sym/assumeAlso.

[normal  "Additional help" paragraphs]
-- less -- (f)orward, (b)ack, (q)uit


(The "symbolic" package is located at
https://octave.sourceforge.io/symbolic/.)

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