diff -durN yelp-2.23.91.orig/src/yelp-man-parser.c yelp-2.23.91/src/yelp-man-parser.c

--- yelp-2.23.91.orig/src/yelp-man-parser.c	2008-09-11 17:50:07 +0400

+++ yelp-2.23.91/src/yelp-man-parser.c	2008-09-14 17:45:32 +0400

@@ -99,12 +99,28 @@

 {

     GError *errormsg = NULL;

     /*gchar *ptr = NULL;*/

+    gchar **recode_argv;

+    gint recode_stdout_fd;

     g_return_val_if_fail (parser != NULL, NULL);

     g_return_val_if_fail (file != NULL, NULL);

     g_return_val_if_fail (encoding != NULL, NULL);

-    parser->channel = yelp_io_channel_new_file (file, NULL);

+    recode_argv = g_new (gchar *, 3);

+    recode_argv[0] = g_strdup ("man-show-source");

+    recode_argv[1] = g_strdup (file);

+    recode_argv[2] = NULL;

+    if (g_spawn_async_with_pipes (NULL, recode_argv, NULL,

+				  G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH |

+				  G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL,

+				  NULL, NULL, NULL,

+				  NULL, &recode_stdout_fd, NULL,

+				  NULL)) {

+	parser->channel = g_io_channel_unix_new (recode_stdout_fd);

+	encoding = "UTF-8";

+    } else

+	parser->channel = yelp_io_channel_new_file (file, NULL);

+    g_strfreev (recode_argv);

     if (!parser->channel)

 	return NULL;