Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by <AD>
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:48:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>
> Ok. Less is my pager. Setting LESSCHARSET to latin1 fixed the
> problem. But how do I fix this system wide without setting LESSCHARSET
> in all systemwide shell startup scripts. The less man page says that if
> LESSCHARSET is not set then it uses the setlocale system call to
> determine the correct character set from the LANG and LC_TYPE
> variables. Execution of locale returns
>
> LANG=POSIX
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=
>
> Since less doesn't seem to know what POSIX is then it breaks with <AD>.
>
> So what is the culprit in this situation, less or locale? And what
> changed recently to start producing this? The only thing that has been
> upgraded on my system that I can see affecting this mix is man-db, less,
> locales and groff are slink versions.
>
Can't help you there, man. I'm not worried about posix; I just put it
in my .bashrc.
Rob
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