From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
To: Amin <raihan@citech-bd.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: man page formatting problem?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 05:35:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ECCC40C.3020605@bcgreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362.1053508561@localhost.localdomain>
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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2003-05-21 9:16 man page formatting problem? Amin
2003-05-22 12:35 ` Stephen Samuel [this message]
2003-05-22 17:29 ` Amin
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