Re: UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages
On 2004-09-30 08:54:01 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Another solution which someone was kind enough to send me was to set
> LC_ALL to "C" before every invocation of "man", which works, but
> seems kludgy.
This just deactivates non-ASCII characters, which should be replaced
by ASCII characters.
> I suppose if man is ultimately incapable of handling a utf-8 locale
> then that may have to be the solution (?). (BTW, in my locale output
> the only var unset is LC_ALL -- all the others are set to
> en_US.UTF-8)
It may be a problem with your terminal. I've attached a small file
containing characters in UTF-8. Could you save it and cat it in your
terminal to see if there are problems?
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20 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
40 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
60 `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
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C0 ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
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