weird character issue solved

[tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tyler Littlefield)]

I was digging through all the charsets in dpkg-reconfigure locales, and came across asecond solution:
LC_ALL=C man 2 stat
this seems to have fixed all the weird issues with my manpages, and perhaps compilations too.

Thanks,
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