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Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding



On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:20, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
Could I suggest uxterm?
-Kev
> be pretty.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
-- 
Kevin Mark <kmark@pipeline.com>

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