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Re: Help with man page display in Etch



On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:54:13AM -0600, cothrige wrote:
> 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.

Hey guys, before you take your systems apart have a look at bug #418811.

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

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