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Strange Characters in Man Pages 2005 October 30

Filed under: technology — ecorrado @ 20:10:58

Friday night someone in the LUG/IP IRC channel mentioned they had a problem with man pages displaying single quotes and other special characters on man pages in Red Hat based systems. I looked on my Fedora Core 2 system and noticed I had a similar problem with funny characters showing up in my man pages. It appears the problem was with en_US.UTF-8 encoding of characters. I discovered this out by reading a question and answer on the RedHat Install FAQ. However, I didn’t exactly follow the instructions found in the FAQ. Instead I just added “LC_ALL=C” to the beginning of /etc/sysconfig/i18n (without the quotes). My complete /etc/sysconfig/i18n looks like:


$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LC_ALL=C
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

 

2 Comments for this post

 
Gregory Haase Says: October 31st, 2005 at 07:10:16

Once again, thanks for finding that. It was one of those things that had been annoying me off and on for a couple of years now. When it showed up in the default server install for Centos 4.0, I was even more frustrated.

 
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