I noticed a problem like this. when opening a man page inside emacs i get lots of \323\323\345\xxx. and so on, where there should be - and -- they seem to be octal characters. i changed the LANG variable from "en_AU.UTF-8" to with export LANG="en_AU" or even export LANG="en" and this solved the problem in emacs.
I think that running man in a bash shell outside of emacs did not have this issue. Does anyone know why this was a problem in emacs. is it because emacs does not support utf8? or is it because emacs does, but can't handle things if utf8 is already dealt with prior to running in emacs... so removing the utf8 part of the lang variable allows emacs to fully render the characters in its own way. in any case, regardless of where i run man pages, i do not get the bold highlighting (bright white) at all like i used to with red hat 7.2. in the shell i used to get highlighting, while in emacs there was no such highlighting. now i get none at all... does anyone know how to fix this? could this possibley be related to my earlier problem regarding textual interfaces....? I too wonder why rh8 had this misconfiguration. it seems that rh is getting towards caring more about X environments than text console environments. cf. my recent messages on text user interface applications like cdp and problems with lining up characters. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Vanecek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 2 March 2003 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:11:24 -0500, Douglas Alan wrote > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > > > > What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there > > > should be a "-"? > > > > This is on Red Hat 8.0. > > > It probably means that you're using a terminal emulator that's > > incapable of, or not configured to display UTF-8 characters. What are > > you using? > > xterm, gone-terminal, and the virtual consoles. None of them seem to > support UTF-8 out of the box. The problem was fixed by turning off > UTF-8 by edditing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and replacing 'LANG="en_US.UTF- > 8' with 'LANG="en_US"'. Or by removing the i18n file completely. > > I'm not sure why RedHat would come with such a basic thing misconfigured. I got one that is even more confusing. RH 8.0, man man (for example), underlines and hypens are fine. Use Gnome-terminal to ssh to RH 7.1 system. Do a man man during that session. The underlines are fine, but the end-of-line hypens display as question marks. Now where do I look? Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
