Re: Odd characters on man pages under RH8.0

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

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
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