On 2/19/06, Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.]
Avoiding controversy and debate? Come now. You're setting a dangerous precedent. ;) >> This smells like a Unicode issue to me. > > Likewise - and that's one funky aroma, ain't it? Gack. ;-) *GRIN* > 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? Either fixes the problem. Woo-who! Thanks! I knew it was an easy fix like that, I just couldn't remember what. I have LANG=C in my ~/.bash_profile file to change other behaviors; that's doubtless where the problem comes from. > I don't have any experience with FC, but I'd be interested to know which > man pages display this way ... Pretty much all of them. For example, the "NAME" section typically has what I assume is the Unicode em dash character between the name and the one-line description. Without the proper environment magic, that character does not display properly. I'm pretty sure this is due to something Red Hat does when creating their man pages. I know Red Hat has done a lot of work to switch to Unicode to support internationalization and localization efforts, that's an admirable thing. I suspect that, since they had gone to all that effort, they took the opportunity to make use of the "fancy" characters available in Unicode. I can't really argue against that, either. It does make things a bit trickier for character set Luddites like me, though. :) -- Ben "7-bit characters were good enough to go to the moon" Scott _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
