encoding not working on man pages?

[Ray Van Dolson]

unset LANG usually fixes this problem.  Someone else can probably give you
a better explanation, but it seems like changing the default for LANG to
en_US (instead of what it is by default) also does the trick.

Ray

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:41:23AM -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.