[PLUG] RedHat 8.0 manpage issue...

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Fri Dec 6 15:56:39 UTC 2002


The actual problem (and I have verified this myself) is the local being
set to UTF8 (probably en_US.UT8) and the culprit is the LANG variable,
setting it to just en_US should solve the man problems.

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 09:13, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> Check out your TERM veriable:
> 
> echo $TERM
> 
> If it comes back as `linux' (it probably will) then you're golden. If
> not, set the TERM variable to a `common denominator' value:
> 
> export TERM=vt100
> 
> or 
> 
> export TERM=linux
> 
> If either of the statements above fixes it, make your changes permanent
> in /etc/inittab after having made a backup copy:
> 
>    cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.0
> 
> 
> -Cooper
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 09:00, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 23:19, Michael Cribbins wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Sorry if this has been covered, I just re-subscribed. A friend of mine
> > > just installed RedHat 8.0 and is getting manpages that have garbage
> > > characters in them, such as:
> > >
> > >  > MOUNT(8) Linux Programmerâ€(tm)s Manual MOUNT(8)
> > >  > NAME
> > >  > mount âˆ' mount a file system
> > >  > SYNOPSIS
> > >  > mount [âˆ'lhV]
> > >  > mount âˆ'a [âˆ'fFnrsvw] [âˆ't vfstype] [âˆ'O optlist]
> > >  > mount [âˆ'fnrsvw] [âˆ'o options [,...]] device | dir
> > >  > mount [âˆ'fnrsvw] [âˆ't vfstype] [âˆ'o options] device dir
> > >  > DESCRIPTION
> > >  > All files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big tree, the
> > >  > file hierarchy, rooted at /. These files can be spread out over sev�
> > >
> > > A search on RedHat's site didn't produce anything. Anyone have any
> > > clues?
> > 
> > Could be the infamous RH8 locale issue- what man page reader is your friend 
> > using? Try using yelp or konqueror (man:foo). See the RH8 release notes on 
> > disc 1, or on redhat.com, they contain answers to many vexing issues.
> > -- 
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> > Carla Schroder
> > Bratgrrl Computing
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