Re: garbages in man page output

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:29:42 +0000, T o n g wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:51:16 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>>> I have garbage outputs in the man page of my newly installed Debian,
>> 
>> Does this happen...?

(...)
 
>>  - For all users?
> 
> Yes, with all man pages, under xterm and even console tty. For the rest,
> (konsole, other users, etc), I don't care.

You should care :-)

If another brand-new user account is not facing the problem, something 
could be wrong with your current user profile.

Anyway, test with another locale that can handle UTF-8:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man whatever

Or try by appending "-d" for debugging.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón