On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:11:24 -0500, Douglas Alan wrote > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > > > > What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there > > > should be a "-"? > > > > This is on Red Hat 8.0. > > > It probably means that you're using a terminal emulator that's > > incapable of, or not configured to display UTF-8 characters. What are > > you using? > > xterm, gone-terminal, and the virtual consoles. None of them seem to > support UTF-8 out of the box. The problem was fixed by turning off > UTF-8 by edditing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and replacing 'LANG="en_US.UTF- > 8' with 'LANG="en_US"'. Or by removing the i18n file completely. > > I'm not sure why RedHat would come with such a basic thing misconfigured.
I got one that is even more confusing. RH 8.0, man man (for example), underlines and hypens are fine. Use Gnome-terminal to ssh to RH 7.1 system. Do a man man during that session. The underlines are fine, but the end-of-line hypens display as question marks. Now where do I look? Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
