Red Hat man pages and escape sequences

[Tom Buskey]

On my Fedora system...

$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ echo $PAGER
/usr/bin/less

They display ok with bolding in a plain xterm.

Strip escapes out:
man <page> | col -b | $PAGER


On 2/19/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
> case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
>
>   This typically manifests as a highlighted printed representation of
> non-printable escape codes, and/or non-English characters, where one
> would normally expect dashes, quotes, and the like.
>
>   This smells like a Unicode issue to me.
>
>   I know I've seen the fix for this before, but I can't remember
> where, and Google just finds a lot of discussion and bitching, and in
> this case, I just want the damn thing to work.
>
>   Tried KDE konsole, GNOME gnome-terminal, xterm -- all fail in some
> way.  Tried setting LANG=C and unsetting LANG, no change.  Tried
> cursing loudly; didn't help, but made me feel a little better.
>
> -- Ben "When I was young, we only had 127 characters, and we liked it
> that way" Scott
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