diff --git a/pages/common/groff.md b/pages/common/groff.md
index e94ac53c83..322229200c 100644
--- a/pages/common/groff.md
+++ b/pages/common/groff.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 - Render a man page using the ASCII output device, and display it using a pager:
 
-`groff -man -T ascii {{path/to/manpage.1}} | less`
+`groff -man -T ascii {{path/to/manpage.1}} | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS`
 
 - Render a man page into an HTML file: