Re: man pages have funny characters

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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Edward S. Marshall wrote:

=>On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 07:34:37AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
=>> A much better solution is to simply tell your terminal emulator to use
=>> the UTF-8 character set.
=>> 
=>> Kevin~ what terminal are you using?
=>
=>For the record, I'm seeing the same problem. I'm running gnome-terminal
=>on Solaris ("fixed" font, if it matters), displaying back to a Windows X
=>server (Exceed 7.x). From gnome-terminal, I'm ssh'ing over to a couple of
=>psyche boxes at home. So far, man is the only misbehaving command, but
=>I have to admit I don't use a lot of programs that monkey with curses.
=>
=>The LANG=en_US setting seems to have done the trick, but I'd rather be
=>fixing this "correctly". ;-)

The correct solution is to set LANG in /etc/sysconfig/i18n I just set LANG 
to C to get what I've always had.

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