On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:45:19 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current > case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
[Suggestion of dumping FC for $OTHERDISTRO reconsidered and omitted.] > This typically manifests as a highlighted printed representation of > non-printable escape codes, and/or non-English characters, where one > would normally expect dashes, quotes, and the like. > > This smells like a Unicode issue to me. Likewise - and that's one funky aroma, ain't it? Gack. ;-) > I know I've seen the fix for this before, but I can't remember > where, and Google just finds a lot of discussion and bitching, and in > this case, I just want the damn thing to work. > > Tried KDE konsole, GNOME gnome-terminal, xterm -- all fail in some > way. Tried setting LANG=C and unsetting LANG, no change. Tried > cursing loudly; didn't help, but made me feel a little better. Does setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (what my Mandrake systems call it) or "LANG=en_US.utf8" (what my Gentoo box calls it) make any difference? I don't have any experience with FC, but I'd be interested to know which man pages display this way, so that I can inspect them on these systems. I don't recall having seen this sort of thing here, but it's entirely likely that I just haven't pulled up the right man pages yet. :-/ -- Bill Mullen RLU #270075 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss