[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes: > Context: Debian unstable. [...] Since switching my locale to > en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
I think "dpkg-reconfigure locales" takes of that, but just to be sure, could you verify that /etc/locale.gen contains a line en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 If you re-run "locale-gen" as root, does that emit any error messages? > whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get > strange chars, e.g.: > > man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields: > > "delivering and [EMAIL PROTECTED] recipes.." > > That intercalating pattern -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- is throughout the man page. To find out if it's a problem of "man" or the pager, use "cat" as pager. In particular, what does PAGER=cat man cat | hexdump -C | grep ^000006 print? It prints 00000600 6f 72 6e 20 47 72 61 6e 6c 75 6e 64 20 61 6e 64 |orn Granlund and| 00000610 20 52 69 63 68 61 72 64 20 4d 2e 20 53 74 61 6c | Richard M. Stal| 00000620 6c 6d 61 6e 2e 0a 0a 52 08 52 45 08 45 50 08 50 |lman...R.RE.EP.P| 00000630 4f 08 4f 52 08 52 54 08 54 49 08 49 4e 08 4e 47 |O.OR.RT.TI.IN.NG| 00000640 08 47 20 42 08 42 55 08 55 47 08 47 53 08 53 0a |.G B.BU.UG.GS.S.| 00000650 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 52 65 70 6f 72 74 20 62 75 | Report bu| 00000660 67 73 20 74 6f 20 3c 62 75 67 e2 80 90 63 6f 72 |gs to <bug...cor| 00000670 65 75 74 69 6c 73 40 67 6e 75 2e 6f 72 67 3e 2e |[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.| 00000680 0a 0a 43 08 43 4f 08 4f 50 08 50 59 08 59 52 08 |..C.CO.OP.PY.YR.| 00000690 52 49 08 49 47 08 47 48 08 48 54 08 54 0a 20 20 |RI.IG.GH.HT.T. | 000006a0 20 20 20 20 20 43 6f 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 20 c2 | Copyright .| 000006b0 a9 20 32 30 30 34 20 46 72 65 65 20 53 6f 66 74 |. 2004 Free Soft| 000006c0 77 61 72 65 20 46 6f 75 6e 64 61 74 69 6f 6e 2c |ware Foundation,| 000006d0 20 49 6e 63 2e 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 54 68 69 | Inc.. Thi| 000006e0 73 20 69 73 20 66 72 65 65 20 73 6f 66 74 77 61 |s is free softwa| 000006f0 72 65 3b 20 73 65 65 20 74 68 65 20 73 6f 75 72 |re; see the sour| here. The interesting parts are the hyphen in "bug-coreutils" (bytes e2 80 90) and the copyright character in "Copyright (C) 2004" (bytes c2 a9). Martin -- ,--. ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' http://www.zero-based.org/ `-'(. .)`-' `-. \_/