Text1On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Guy Cohen wrote about "garbage in man pages":
> 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?
Perhaps Red
Thanks for all the replies.
Here's the solution I chosed to make:
edit /etc/man.conf
and change
NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
to
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
Regards
Guy
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:17PM +0300, Guy Cohen wrote:
> I have a problem with reading man
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
Quoting Guy Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.
>
LC_CTYPE=en_US solves it. I have a similar problem on Mandrake. I basically
alia
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Guy Cohen wrote about "garbage in man pages":
> 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?
Perhaps Redhat t
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Guy Cohen wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks
You are using man pages in a UTF-8
Set LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Gilboa
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:18, Guy Cohen wrote:
> 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
