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If you look here:
[url]http://www.yankeeboysoftware.com/Stuff/term.jpg[/url]
you will see that I have some unusual characters being displayed under
'man'.
What I don't understand is that I don't see them in vim, or on
terminal app output like the listing from an 'ls' command.
This seems to be only related to 'man' using the terminal, but I can't
find anything in the man man page that helps.
I would be grateful for any assistance
Thanks,
Jack
"Jack" <jack@yankeeboysoftware.com> wrote in message
news:bbd64220.0311010919.785a8b2a@posting.google.com
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> If you look here:
> [url]http://www.yankeeboysoftware.com/Stuff/term.jpg[/url]
> you will see that I have some unusual characters being displayed under
> 'man'.
> What I don't understand is that I don't see them in vim, or on
> terminal app output like the listing from an 'ls' command.
> This seems to be only related to 'man' using the terminal, but I can't
> find anything in the man man page that helps.
> I would be grateful for any assistance[/color]
This is related to your system language, which can be seen by typing
"locale". I'm willing to bet that it will read "en_GB.utf8", when you will
have better results with "en_GB".
You can make the change in a current window with "export LANG=en_GB", or
system wide by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n or its equivalent on your distro.
tony
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Actually I finally figured this out by reading another post regarding
man.conf entries, although it looks like essentially the same
solution.
It looks like groff/troff need to be told to use UTF8.