Here's the answer to my original question, which raises a couple of other issues - what's the most elegant workaround, and should there be a fix?
Does anybody from RedHat read this list? David Baird ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Garbled Man Pages in Red Hat Linux 8 > You're welcome. I've seen the question on several other lists also. > 1. It could probably be added to /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile. I didn't > use those files because I only have a couple of users on the machine. > > 2. My guess is it would have to be brought to Redhat's attention. I > haven't told them and I don't know if anybody else has either. > > Leonard > > >>> "David & Kate Baird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/19/03 06:31 AM > >>> > Thank you. In my case locale (unsurprisingly) produced "en_GB.UTF8". > $LANG > was exactly the same (including the .UTF8) and $LC_ALL was undefined. I > set > them both to en_GB via .bashrc and this seems to fix the problem (in > fact > just setting $LC_ALL to en_GB sorted it, although en_GB.UTF8 didn't > work).. > > 2 further questions: > > - How can I get these environment variables set correctly for all users > without having to alter every .bashrc? > > - Since I've done a pretty vanilla build and others obviously have the > same > problem, is there a fix needed to something, and if so who needs to > know? > > David Baird > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Garbled Man Pages in Red Hat Linux 8 > At the prompt type "locale". Odds are there is a .UTF8 at the end of > whatever will be displayed. Take everything before the .UTF8 and add > the following to you .bashrc file. > If "locale" produced "en_US.UTF8", then add "en_US" > > export LANG=en_US > export LC_ALL=en_US > > Logout and log back in, it should fix it. > > Leonard > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/18/03 08:15 AM >>> > I've installed Red Hat Linux 8 on a Compaq PC from scratch. I use the > KDE > desktop (I haven't got Gnome installed at all), and I've selected the > Windows Look and Feel using the desktop > > My problem is that most Man pages (e.g. man iptables) don't display > properly > in a terminal window. Hyphens and possibly other characters display as > empty squares. This also happens if I run a terminal window using PuTTY > via > SSL from a Windows client over the network. It doesn't happen with a > non-graphical interface at RunLevel 3, and it didn't happen at all > before I > upgraded from RHL 7.2 to 8.0. > > I've applied all the available patches using Up2date, and the problem is > still there. I've also seen it on a completely separate system > elsewhere, > again with RHL 8 on a PC server with a network terminal session from a > Windows PC running PuTTY. I don't know what desktop was in use on that > server. > > This seems a fairly basic problem, annoying rather than critical, but of > course you never know what it may conceal. Any solutions? > > David Baird > Manchester > UK -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
