Never Mind,  I stumbled across it myself.
Changing LANG in /etc/sysconfig/i18n from
en_US.UTF-8 to en_US did the trick.

Note that i18n is not the most obvious name. :-)


Robert Styma wrote:
> 
> My newest Rh 8.0 machine has strange 'man' behaviour.
> On local terminals, it does not create a problem, but
> when telnet'ing in from another type of system, the
> unusual characters output do not work.  This is a
> fresh install of RH8.0 with RHN used to bring all installed
> packages up to date.
> 
> In the attached transcript, the \E2\80\E2\80\90 is
> the HEX representation of the characters output.
> That sequence is a dash (-) when it is rendered locally.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to turn this behaviour off and
> not send non-ascii characters to the screen?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> man up2date -P cat
> UP2DATE(8)                Red Hat Linux System Manual               UP2DATE(8)
> 
> NAME
>        Update Agent \E2\88\92 a program for updating packages on Red Hat Linux
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        up2date [OPTION]... [PACKAGE NAME]...
>        up2date\E2\80\E2\80\90nox [OPTION]... [PACKAGE NAME]...
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 
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