On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:17:58 +0200
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> sssslang wrote:
> > Hi, all!
> >
> > I found some character lost in my system, please look at these two pic. One 
> > (urxvt.jpg) is shoted in "rxvt-unicode" from the command "man ls", and the 
> > other one (woman.jpg) is shoted in "emacs -nw (also in rxvt-unicode)" from 
> > "woman mode".
> >
> > I think the "(C)" is the right character, but why it displays "<A9>"? Is it
> > because missing some fonts?
> >   
> This is probably because you have set some UTF-8 locale, but manpages in 
> Arch are encoded in latin1. To solve this, simply add this line to your 
> /etc/profile:
> 
> export LESSCHARSET="latin1"

I thought that the whole point of utf8 was that it was completely backwards 
compatible with latin1?

> Hope it helps,
> Firmicus

-- 
Doug Whiteley

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