[PLUG] manpage mangling

[Michael Ewan]

Paul Mullen wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:54:35AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
>   
>> I noticed a while back that manpages on one of my (debian) desktop
>> boxes have mangled rendering due to uninterpretted terminal control
>> codes in an xterm, e.g. (randomly) from the jhead manpage:
>>     
>
> Mine does the same thing. It seems to have something to do with
> character sets and locales. I have $LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8". Setting
> it to "C" produces readable man pages.
>
>   
I have found that most strange text in man pages can be rendered 
properly by doing
export LC_ALL=C
in your shell.  As stated above, it's a local problem.  As side effect 
of LC_ALL=C is that ls will sort ascii, so case and dot files sort as 
we're used to.