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Re: man locale problems.



On 2004-06-28T19:44:38-0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> tallison@isengard:~$ man passwd
> man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
> Reformatting passwd(1), please wait...

What do you have them set to?  I have "LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG"
(in .profile) with the following in locale.gen: "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8".  As
some man pages contain stuff that do not render right, I often do:
LANG=C man ...


/Allan

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