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On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:00 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
> 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.
It's not a misconfiguration. It's a known issue with UTF-8 fonts and some
applications, see the release notes.
$ grep -A 25 General /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
Distribution General Notes
o Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default in
languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
This has been known to cause various issues:
. Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do
not always appear correctly in certain locales.
. On the console, the latarcyrheb-sun16 font is used for best Unicode
coverage. Due to the use of this font, bold colors are not available.
. Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe(R) Acrobat
Reader(R), may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because
they lack support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers
provide such support in their products, you may work around this
issue by setting the LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to
C prior to typing the application name. For example:
env LANG=C acroread
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