On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:48:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > > Ok. Less is my pager. Setting LESSCHARSET to latin1 fixed the > problem. But how do I fix this system wide without setting LESSCHARSET > in all systemwide shell startup scripts. The less man page says that if > LESSCHARSET is not set then it uses the setlocale system call to > determine the correct character set from the LANG and LC_TYPE > variables. Execution of locale returns > > LANG=POSIX > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > > Since less doesn't seem to know what POSIX is then it breaks with <AD>. > > So what is the culprit in this situation, less or locale? And what > changed recently to start producing this? The only thing that has been > upgraded on my system that I can see affecting this mix is man-db, less, > locales and groff are slink versions. >
Can't help you there, man. I'm not worried about posix; I just put it in my .bashrc. Rob -- Deflector shields just came on, Captain.
