Re: Man pages are going crazy

[Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com>]

On Friday 10 June 2005 19:08, you wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.11 kernel Vaio Picturebook, and I added
> > Japanese support by adding this to my Xsession file
>
> [cut]
>
> > SInce I have done this, my Man pages will not work anymore. What can I do
> > to get them back?
>
> man is trying to give you japanese man pages.
>
> The man pages are typically broken for any locale other than C anyway:
> trying to use funky emdash characters instead of - for example:
>
> If you want to see the man pages in japanese, try installing jless
> as your pager instead of less.
>
> Otherwise, you may want to alias man to something that purges all language
> settings from your environment (sets them all to C, including LANG and
> LANGUAGE) and then actually calls man.

Hi

Thanks for that. That Alias thing sounds good, but unfortunately I have no 
idea where to start. Can you go into that a little further? I dont have the 
knowledge to set that up, what you just advised to me.

Thanks

Bence