high ascii in the manpages

[jim@short.circuit.com]

More puzzling than anything else, but I've noticed some of the manpages
for some reason display a upside-down exclamation mark (!) instead of
a hyphen. 

The puzzle is that this happens only on SOME of the VC's.

Same with high-ascii box characters. In some VC they display as box
characters, in others a double-dotted A character instead..

Wot strange behavior, no?

                 ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
                 ³            ³
                 ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

Cat this at the different VC's. On tty1, tty2, tty3 I get box characters.
The other tty's appear as if a bit is dropped.

On tty1, tty2, tty3 I get the distorted manpages. 

Strange indeed. Is this by design?




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