RHEL-8: man produces scrambled output on terminal emulators that don't properly support colorized output (e.g. Wyse 60)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Certain terminal emulators such as Wyse 60 fail to process control sequences properly when running the man command and produce unreadable output

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
  • Wyse-60 terminal

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