On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 07:31:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] > > > > > > > > When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming > > > out a bit garbled. > > > > > > I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for > > > xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would > > > tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks. > > > > It will most likely be due to your locale settings. Also, I experimented > > with fonts in xterm and uxterm, only the default font allowed unicode > > charaters to display, so I am now using urxvt and it works great. I also > > changed my pager option in the shell start up file to less as opposed to > > more, and set lesscharset environment variable, man pages display fine now > > for me. > > For people using UTF-8, the uxterm script works out of the box... > > The usual problem with fonts is from overwriting the utf8Fonts resource > setting via a too-wide "fonts" wildcard pattern.
For example
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#utf8_fonts
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