I have installation with English and Russian languages selected during installation. System language is set to Russian (KOI8-R to be sure), i18n variables are ru_RU.KOI8-R. I mostly do ssh from a workplace that does not support Russian display (never had real need for that actually). I can reset LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES to prevent (unreadable) Russian text. BUT! How can I prevent man pages from being displayed in Russian? The problem is not trivial: Mandrake does not actually have *English* manual pages. It has fallback pages, that are displayed if nothing else is found. I.e. it has /usr/share/man/ru for Russian but does *not* have /usr/share/man/en for English - it has /usr/share/man Now, man seems to have (I checked sources once) the weirdest way to select language to display. It tries all possible language variables and falls back to /usr/share/man (a.k.a. English) *only* when nothing more is found. It means, that if one of the LANG, LC_MESSAGES, LANGUAGE (and possibly more) has ru in it - I get Russian manual pages. I definitely do not want to reset all language variables just to please man. I do not want to deinstalll Russian manuals. I just want to tell man to display English man pages. I claim it is Mandrake packaging bug. English manuals should be packaged under /usr/share/man/en just like all other languages. It could then be used as default fallback as well. -andrej
