> 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)
This completely solves the problem - in displaying and printing.
Interested to know what gives with this problem as to a permanent
solution.
Any thoughts?
