Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr.
<fbhjr@fhase.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
> Mozilla Firefox.  I can start an xterm thusly:
> 
> xterm -u8 -fn \
> '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
> 
> It displays the "UTF-8-demo.txt" file nicely, with the sole exception of
> Amharic Ethiopian, which is displayed as outline boxes per character.
> 
> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
> whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
> strange chars, e.g.:
> 
> man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields:
> 
> "delivering and nonâ@~^Pdelivering recipes.."

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Can "most" (your pager) support UTF8? Have you tried to use "less" instead?


Andrea