On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:43:08 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > If you type > > PAGER=cat man cat > > do you see a coypright symbol in the "Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software > Foundation, Inc." line (i.e., in the place where I have written "(C)" > here)? If you type > > printf \\302\\251\\n > > do you see a copyright symbol? If you type > > printf \\342\\200\\220\\n > > do you see a small hyphen (i.e. something somewhat smaller than what you > get when you hit the - key)? > > If your answer to the second and third question is "yes", try to pipe the > output of each command to a pager, e.g. > > printf \\342\\200\\220\\n | less > > In place of "less", try each pager which you also tried with "man".
If I use the above commands in uxterm, all is well. I see the copyright symbol and the small hyphen. Of course, aterm is a no go, but that is not a surprise. So I tried the following pagers: cat, less, more, most. (I was enjoying "most" for the colorization....) It ultimately does seem to be a PAGER problem, since with every pager but "most", when used in a uxterm, the man pages render perfectly well with no odd symbols. It seems the culprit was "most." As a final minor issue, not critical for me by any means, when I use a working pager like less to view the UTF-8-demon.txt file, the only text that gives a problem (boxes) is Amharic Ethiopian. Thank you, as well as the other respondents, for all your patient assistance. Cheers, Fred Henry, Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]