weird man pages display problem

Greg Rundlett greg.rundlett at buzgate.org
Mon May 12 12:40:48 EDT 2003


Thanks Derek, that fixed it.  I thought it had to do with UTF-8, but
wasn't sure how to change it.  I just set 
  LANG=en_US
in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
so all users won't have a problem.

If anyone out there is reading this, and your man pages (screenshot:
http://freephile.com/manmess.png) looks like mine did, you can fix it.

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:24, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> Anyone know why all my RH8.0 systems display dashes '-' in man pages as
> a square block.  It is driving me batty.
> 
> I tried setting fonts to no avail.  It's not like I'm using Symbol font
> for general display.
> 
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