On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Uh, no - out of the box - sitting at the console (/dev/tty1) - I experience
> the same problem. It sounds to me that Red Hat neglected a setting in the
> default profile.d scripts.
Odd, I just tried it on my console and man pages look fine. Not sure what
the problem is, then. In xterms, I don't see any hyphens, but they don't
look bad other than that.
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