From e310497a9a120c6f7dd53f158a06d5e1d15728b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:27:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] src/mkhelp: strip off escape sequences

At some point the nroff command stopped stripping off escape sequences,
so then this script needs to do the job instead.

Reported-by: VictorVG on github
Fixes #11501
Closes #11503
---
 src/mkhelp.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/mkhelp.pl b/src/mkhelp.pl
index ba2e7c1d40..19a30e2c81 100755
--- a/src/mkhelp.pl
+++ b/src/mkhelp.pl
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ while (<STDIN>) {
     # remove trailing CR from line. msysgit checks out files as line+CRLF
     $line =~ s/\r$//;
 
+    $line =~ s/\x1b\x5b[0-9]+m//g; # escape sequence
     if($line =~ /^([ \t]*\n|curl)/i) {
         # cut off headers and empty lines
         $wline++; # count number of cut off lines