although ther is'nt any replys, the proplem is solved now, it was less proplem and there is no need to that script

anyhow, I rewrote it and it seems to be better now

#!/bin/bash 
#this is a silly script to be used as a "man" programe,
#I wrote it as I faild to configure "man" to use groff-utf8 instead of groff
#NOTE:this script depends on groff-utf8 extension available from http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html

#groff command to use
GROFF_BIN=$(which groff-utf8 2>/dev/null)
GROFF="$GROFF_BIN -Tutf8 -mandoc"

#uncomment that to use "more" as your pager
#PAGER=/bin/more

#ask "man" for the path to manpage
MAN_PAGE=$(LC_ALL=ar man -wc $* 2>/dev/null)

function Usage()
{
echo -e "This is a man program for Arabic manpages"
echo -e "usage: aman [file]                       "
echo -e "where file is the name of manpage to be displayed"
}

function ERR_no_manpage()
{
echo -e "$0 $1: No manual entry for $*"
}

function ERR_no_groff-utf8()
{
echo -e "Can't find groff-utf8"
echo -e "Get it from:"
echo -e "http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html"
}
#check for args
function Args_CHK()
{
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	Usage;exit
fi
}
#check the presence of groff-utf8
function Groff_CHK()
{
if [ -z "$GROFF_BIN" ]; then
	ERR_no_groff-utf8;exit
fi
}

#check the presence of the manpage
function Man_CHK()
{
if [ -z "$MAN_PAGE" ]; then
	 ERR_no_manpage;exit 
fi
}

#tray to check if the file is compressed or not, 
#and the type of compression
GZ=$(file $MAN_PAGE 2>/dev/null | grep gzip)
PZ=$(file $MAN_PAGE 2>/dev/null | grep bzip)
Z=$(file $MAN_PAGE 2>/dev/null | grep zip)

function Core()
{
if [ -z "$Z" ]; then
        $GROFF $MAN_PAGE | $PAGER
else
	#if gzipped
	if [ -z "$PZ" ]; then
		zcat $MAN_PAGE | $GROFF | $PAGER
	else
		#if bzipped2
		bzcat $MAN_PAGE | $GROFF | $PAGER
	fi
fi										
}

#do it
Args_CHK $1
Groff_CHK
Man_CHK
Core

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أنا عمال أغنى ورد على نفسى ;)

المهم, الحكاية طلعت فى less مش فى man أصل أنا من سرحانى كنت باعمل

$LC_ALL=ar man katoob

وعمال أقول يخويا less ده ما كان شغال مع اليونيكود حلو ايه اللى جرى ,وأتارى ان أنا ناسى أحط UTF-8

يعنى كل السكريبت مبقاش له لزمة خلاص

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