Thanks Kris for this tip. I was always prepending LANG=C, like "LANG=C man man". But your solution is better, not to mention that changing locale may have some other side effect. Yong Huang > From: Kristoffer Knigga <Kknigga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: some weird behavior when viewing man pages > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <D9F93019E89A314B9C78F81BCB22AF243794EA8DC1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Change the character set translation in putty to UTF-8. > > This is found in the Configuration window, under Window, and then under > Translation. > > See attached PNG. > > Kris Knigga -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list