help(foo, help_type = "text")

When I use the R.app GUI, underlined text produced by help(?, help_type = "text") appears as

_^Ht_^He_^Hx_^Ht

(for example). Any cure for this?

sessionInfo()

R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.3

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