Re: Problem with iso8859 on xterm/with man(1)

[jrfern@bigfoot.com]

On Wed, May 16, 2001, Nilgün Belma Bugüner <nilgun@technologist.com> wrote:

> man pages with ISO latin characters:
> 
> export LESSCHARSET=iso8859

Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> in linux-utf8:

    It is about time to remove a couple of obsolete habits from user
    documentation:

    Do NOT define the environment variable LESSCHARSET. The current
    version of less is able to test the locale and determines automatically
    whether you want Latin-1 or UTF-8. Defining LESSCHARSET is a habit from
    the time where less would by default assume everything is in ASCII,
    which it does not any more. Defining LESSCHARSET deactivates the
    automatic locale-based selection of the character encoding.

1. Check your pager. Is it really less?
2. Check that 'locale charmap' returns ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15
    o UTF-8)
    
There is one bigger problem: the glibc and the Xlib locales are
different and they seem to conflict.
		       
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