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Re: Help with man page display in Etch



On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type
> man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences
> in it, e.g. “ and ” 
> I think they are supposed to be quotation marks, but not completely
> sure. How do I get man to display what the author intended. I've
> tried reconfiguring localss, but that doesn't seem to change the
> situation. Is there some magic to make the locales reconfig actually
> happen after dpkg-reconfigure is completed? Or what? Something 
> completely different? 
> 
> Also I'm using gnome desktop to run gnome terminal and emacs. Could
> those bolix the locales?

At least post the output of 'locale'.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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