On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:31:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > I already know that setting LANG=C will get me man pages in > an xterm that show the hyphens. the question is: is this the > acceptable hack for this, and where is the most appropriate > place for this setting?
You can also get correct man pages in an xterm by starting the xterm as follows: 'xterm -fa mono -fs 14' (instead of mono you can use other freetype fonts). Then you don't have to change LANG. Xterm under psyche mostly supports unicode. > just curious about what's the best/safest approach for this. will > changing LANG have any adverse effects on anything else? I am also interested in a comprehensive answer to this. Alexander
