I'm not sure whether the manpage authors are to blame for not using "verbatim text/code" tags, or troff is to blame for not having them, but in any case,alias man='LC_CTYPE=C man' is a braindead thing to have to do.
I have found that if you don't do your text command line stuff with "LC_CTYPE-C" you're going to be unhappy eventually. Windows, Mac, other UNIX. I don't know about Plan 9, since it doesn't give you that option.
Oh, *any* use of saved registry files in Windows seems to count as "text command line stuff" by this metric. :p
