From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: man page formatting problem? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:29:21 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1271.1053624561@localhost.localdomain> References: Return-path: In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen Samuel of "Thu, 22 May 2003 05:35:24 MST." <3ECCC40C.3020605@bcgreen.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs