I ran into something like this & now have a script (~/bin/man) to get around it: > #!/bin/ksh > unset LANG > /usr/bin/man $* Hope this helps, -S Hicham Mouline wrote: > > hello, > i get weird characters in man pages. Here's an example from "man find" > > OPTIONS > The â-Hâ, â-Lâ and â-Pâ options control > > the chars surrounding -H and -L and -P.... (i don't know the charset used by this mail agent i'm posting with...) > > My env variables are : > TERM=xterm > SHELL=/bin/bash > HISTSIZE=1000 > SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 > LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35: > PAGER=/usr/bin/less > INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc > EDITOR=vi > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > PS1=[\u@\h:\w] > SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass > SHLVL=1 > CVS_RSH=ssh > LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s > G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 > _=/bin/env > uname -a > Linux ... 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > less --version > less 394 > Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman > > I don't have any LC* env vars, I suppose LANG replaces those. > > Any clues? > regards, > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
