Re: Help with man page display in Etch

[cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>]

Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> writes:

> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>> Woops!  This manpage seems to be written in UTF8
>>
>> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UTF8?
>>
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
>>     Michelle Konzack
>
>
> I am in enUS_UTF8 and I have the same &#8220 and so on as Paul. I thought it 
> was because this man was not in UTF8. So next: how do you know the charactere 
> encoding of a man page?
> Thierry

Could your terminal be one of those which doesn't support utf8 encoding,
like mrxvt?  If so you could just set LC_CTYPE or LANG to en_US and that
might clear it up.  Works for me anyway.

Patrick