On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> This is a tiny annoyance but I thought I might learn something.
> Starting with RH 6 or 6.1, instead of hyphens in man pages I get a
> black 4-character box containing <AD>. The man man page claims I
> can set LESSCHARSET=latin1 to fix this but it doesn't. Viewing the
> man page for iso_8859_1 seems to suggest that these synbols just
> aren't supported by the terminal. I'm using a vt100 emulator. Is
> there anything that I can/should change in Linux?
You migh try: LESSCHARDEF=.
The latter has the added benefit of displaying colors if you do
something like:
ls -l --color | less
I think this cropped up in 6.1, and drove my crazy for a while.
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