weird characters in man pages and html

[Douglas Furlong]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:07, Paolo Nesti Poggi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I notice some strange things with characters in terminals and browser, you
> might have an explanation for this, i'll stick to terminal for now.
> 
> I'm accessing my fedora trough ssh using secureCRT on Windows 98 (however
> what I'll describe happens also using putty).
<snipedy snip snip snip>

I was haivng this problem in RH8/9 in the past, I fixed it by changing
the LANG local.

I changed it to en_GB, as apposed tot he UTF8 stuff.

To change it system wide I altered /etc/sysconfig/i18n, change the first
line to.

LANG="en_GB"


Hope this helps.

Doug