From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: man page formatting problem? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 05:35:24 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3ECCC40C.3020605@bcgreen.com> References: <1362.1053508561@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1362.1053508561@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Amin Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > 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 -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - 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