On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:45:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Simon has some legitimate comments, but I don't use any setting for
> locale/LANG. In my case, the man pages don't work properly:
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man man
>
> gives me things like:
>
> The manual page associated with each of these arguâ<80><90>
> ========
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls
>
My locale settings are
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
At the moment I'm on an old 7.5 system to test something else, but
there 'man man' is fine for me. Pasting, and allowing mutt to
reformat it -
DESCRIPTION
man is the system's manual pager. Each page argument given
to man is normally the name of
a program, utility or function. The manual page associated
with each of these arguments
is then found and displayed.
(also checked in a tty, again no problem). Your result almost looks
like a "unicode in legacy charset" result, but I cannot see any
reason why the middle of 'arguments' would generate unicode, nor
highlighting codes. Very odd.
> also gives me a sort order that is not case sensitive. I do not like that.
> ========
A case-sensitive sort order is something that really annoys me,
so I am pleased tant en_GB.UTF-8 is case insensitive. I guess that
is another example of "you can't please everyone".
> Note that graphical applications like mail clients and browsers often have
> their own independent locale settings.
>
> -- Bruce
I was not aware of that.
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