On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Josh Roden wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:05:35PM +0200, Josh Roden wrote:
> > > I have a digital computer (Pentium 266i) and monitor (VRTX7-W3) 
> > > with linux 8.0 installed. 
> > 
> > Red Hat Linux 8.0, that is.
> > 
> > > A little square or gibrish is displayed (in GUI - startx) instead 
> > > of every minus "-" symbol. 
> > 
> > In what program?
> 
> Some observations:
> Under GNOME:
>   man exportfs (from gnome-terminal) everything shows up fine.
>   info exportfs (from gnome-terminal) minuses "-" show up as 2 question
>     marks and a minus "??-".
>   man exporfs (from a "Konsole 1.1.3 (Using KDE 3.0.3-8.3)" window) 
>     minuses show up as small squares or gibrish.
> Seems to be something fishy about KDE.
> 
> > Is it when you type that character from the keyboard or also when you
> > copy&paste it? Here's one: -

Bugs of man and info?

try:

  LC_CTYPE=C man exportfs
  LC_CTYPE=C info exportfs

In the problematic environments

(this is just for testing. Not a solution. If this is indeed the
problem: I'm not exactly sure what the solution is)

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