Garbled text in man pages

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Manpage displays garbled characters

This isn't a help request rather a solution to a new issue that updating your system brings. The latest update displays garbled characters while reading any man page the reason being bat is not receiving the expected format to color the output. The output being something akin to this

example of erroneous output

4mPACMAN24m(8) Pacman Manual 4mPACMAN24m(8) 1mNAME0m pacman - package manager utility 1mSYNOPSIS0m 4mpacman24m…