Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the
> time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've
> noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get
> some character issues, most annoying being the fact that all '-'
> characters appear as '???'. I was wondering if there was way, either on
> the Redhat or Debian side, to rectify this issue.
Try setting LANG=C. Red Hat's default locale these days uses the UTF-8
encoding; if you're not using a UTF-8 terminal then the result will not
be pretty.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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