On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Larry Brown wrote:
> Nevermind, I found the solution VIA list archives. For anyone interested
> the release notes provided the solution. The solution is to add the line
> LANG=C in the .bash_profile for the user to change the display. Man started
> working correctly after logging back on. I wonder why they would make such
> a change if the man program doesn't work correctly out of the box. This was
> a fresh new install.
Man works fine out of the box. It's your terminal software that isn't
supporting UTF8 characters. If you can configure UTF8 support in your
terminal emulator (I believe you can in PuTTY, for example), that will fix
the problem as well.
There was a long post about the UTF8 switch a while back in either this
list or psyche-list, but I don't have a pointer to it. It convinced me
that UTF8 is the Coming Thing, and it is good in the long run. But like
the change from a.out to ELF in the mid-90s, it will take a while to get
all the apps (acrobat, pine, terminal emulators, etc.) caught up.
Meanwhile, inevitably, some things will break.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
--
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
