unset LANG usually fixes this problem. Someone else can probably give you a better explanation, but it seems like changing the default for LANG to en_US (instead of what it is by default) also does the trick. Ray On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:41:23AM -0700, Ben Yau wrote: > I've been working on what I think is a charset or encoding problem without > any luck . Hopefully someone here can help me out. > > I have two development redhat 8.0 servers which a previous admin had put > together which look like they're almost identical. However, there is some > sort of encoding problem on one of them (call it server A). It does not > seem to be able to translate some encoding of some sort. For example, on > server B, bringing up a man page looks normal. > > like: -a, --all do not hide entries starting with . > > -A, --almost-all do not list implied . and .. > > On server A, it brings up what looks like encoding for dashes and hyphens > and other non-alphabetic characters. Instead of hyphnes/dashes it comes up > with a's with little conehead hats. Here is a cut and paste which hopefully > will come through in the email: > > âa, ââall do not hide entries starting with . > > âA, ââalmostâall do not list implied . and .. > > ââauthor print the author of each file > > I tried to search on the archives and because I'm not sure what to search > for (charset? encoding?) and "can't read man pages" comes up with a lot of > ..er.. interesting opinions on users who can't read man pages. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
