Re: Fw: Garbled Man Pages in Red Hat Linux 8

[Frederic Herman]

I have the same problem with midnight commander I've tried about everything I found by searching the archives. Nothing seems to work. But when I run mc from Xterm, there is no problem. I like konsole because I need to keep about 10 ssh sessions open and tab between them. It seems like things broke after an upgrade to8.0 AND at the point I tried to use nautilus for something.
Fred

christopher j bottaro wrote:

i have this problem also, using redhat-8.0 and kde-3.1-rc6 compiled from scratch. not only do my hypens sometimes look like squares, but as i scroll thru the man page in konsole, bits and pieces of the new line remain on the previous line. its hard to explain but it gets ugly and hard to read...

-- christopher

On Sunday 19 January 2003 05:24 pm, David & Kate Baird wrote:

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

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