Re: Odd characters on man pages under RH8.0

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Rokicki, Andrew wrote:
> Or edit 
> /ets/sysconfig/i18n
>
> Here is a copy of mine:
>
> LANG="en_US"
> SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
> SYSFONTACM="iso01"
>
> I think this changes it for all the system users.

Only after a reboot or an /etc/rc.d/init.d script calls "functions".
It's best to simply reboot after that tweak.

In the future, try to bottom post, OK?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bob McClure Jr [SMTP:robertmcclure earthlink net]
> > Sent:	Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:56 PM
> > To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject:	Re: Odd characters on man pages under RH8.0
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:34:13PM -0800, Jay Crews wrote:
> >
> > > Paul Lewis writes....
> > >
> > > > On most man pages I can see odd characters which I think are
> >
> > formatting 
> >
> > > > characters.
> > > > What I would like is to have them format the text in the way intended.
> > > >
> > > > If this was dos I would be looking for an ansii driver. What/where is 
> > > > the equivilent in
> > > > RH8?
> > >
> > > You'll probably hear about a half dozen ways to fix this
> > > and why it is, but this will probably do what you want.
> > >
> > > export LANG=en_US
> > >
> > > I put that in my .bashrc so it just runs when I start a new shell.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Jay Crews
> > > jpc jaycrews com
> >
> > See also
> >
> > http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#funny_chars
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> > robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
> > Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
> >
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