Guy Cohen wrote on 2003-06-25: > I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8. > some chars are missing and instead I see garbage. > The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options. > > Any one knows what's the problem? > Assuming you use a utf8 locale, man outputs unicode dashes (don't remember which) ranther than minuses and your font probably donesn't have them. If you work on the console, try to run ``unicode_start`` and then retry the man; in X try running man from ``xterm -u8``. These might or might not help; you can always ``LC_ALL=C man ...`` as a workaround.
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