Never Mind, I stumbled across it myself. Changing LANG in /etc/sysconfig/i18n from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US did the trick. Note that i18n is not the most obvious name. :-) Robert Styma wrote: > > My newest Rh 8.0 machine has strange 'man' behaviour. > On local terminals, it does not create a problem, but > when telnet'ing in from another type of system, the > unusual characters output do not work. This is a > fresh install of RH8.0 with RHN used to bring all installed > packages up to date. > > In the attached transcript, the \E2\80\E2\80\90 is > the HEX representation of the characters output. > That sequence is a dash (-) when it is rendered locally. > > Does anyone know of a way to turn this behaviour off and > not send non-ascii characters to the screen? > > Thank you for your time. > > man up2date -P cat > UP2DATE(8) Red Hat Linux System Manual UP2DATE(8) > > NAME > Update Agent \E2\88\92 a program for updating packages on Red Hat Linux > > SYNOPSIS > up2date [OPTION]... [PACKAGE NAME]... > up2date\E2\80\E2\80\90nox [OPTION]... [PACKAGE NAME]... > > DESCRIPTION > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer AG Communication Systems, Phoenix - A subsidiary of Lucent Email: stymar@agcs.com Phone: 623-582-7323 FAX: 623-581-4884 Company: http://www.agcs.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
