encoding problem (such as on man pages)

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:45:04AM -0700, Ben Yau wrote:
> I've been working on what I think is a charset or encoding problem without
> any luck .  Hopefully someone here can help me out.
> 
> I have two development redhat 8.0 servers which a previous admin had put
> together which look like they're almost identical.  However, there is some
> sort of encoding problem on one of them (call it server A).  It does not
> seem to be able to translate some encoding of some sort.  For example, on
> server B, bringing up a man page looks normal.
> 
> like:
>  -a, --all
>               do not hide entries starting with .
> 
>        -A, --almost-all
>               do not list implied . and ..
> 
> On server A, it brings up what looks like encoding for dashes and hyphens
> and other non-alphabetic characters.  Instead of hyphnes/dashes it comes up
> with a's with little conehead hats.  Here is a cut and paste which hopefully
> will come through in the email:
> 
> âa, ââall
>               do not hide entries starting with .
> 
>        âA, ââalmostâall
>               do not list implied . and ..
> 
>        ââauthor
>               print the author of each file
> 
> 
> I tried to search on the archives and because I'm not sure what to search
> for (charset? encoding?) and "can't read man pages" comes up with a lot of
> ..er.. interesting opinions on users who can't read man pages.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Ben Yau

For Server A, look at

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#funny_chars

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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