man page formatting problem?

man page formatting problem?

[Amin]

Hi,

I've noticed this about man pages displayed in an X terminal
application such as xterm, etc. --- the dashes (hyphens) and
quotation marks don't show up (in xterm), and when they do
(in Konsole), it's sporadic --- some show, and others show
up as weird-looking characters.

I think this is a problem with GNU nroff, which formats the
man pages, but I don't know where to go from there.  This
hasn't been a problem for me until recently, because I've
just started copying examples from man pages.

I was hoping someone here could give me a couple of
pointers.

Thanks,
Yawar Amin
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Re: man page formatting problem?

[Stephen Samuel]

try

export LC_ALL=C

it seems to be a locale problem with man

Amin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed this about man pages displayed in an X terminal
> application such as xterm, etc. --- the dashes (hyphens) and
> quotation marks don't show up (in xterm), and when they do
> (in Konsole), it's sporadic --- some show, and others show
> up as weird-looking characters.
> 
> I think this is a problem with GNU nroff, which formats the
> man pages, but I don't know where to go from there.  This
> hasn't been a problem for me until recently, because I've
> just started copying examples from man pages.
> 
> I was hoping someone here could give me a couple of
> pointers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yawar Amin
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Re: man page formatting problem?

[Amin]

In message <3ECCC40C.3020605@bcgreen.com>, Stephen Samuel writes:
> try
> 
> export LC_ALL=C
> 
> it seems to be a locale problem with man

Thanks --- it worked.  I've put that line into my
``.bash_profile''.  And I've also looked at the man page for
``setlocale''.  Just for kicks, I set LC_ALL to
``en_US.utf8''.  xterm messed up the dashes, so I set it
back to ``C''.  The dashes were perfect.  So, thanks,
although I'm just a little bemystified :-) about the whole
locale thing.

Yawar
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