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Michael Tyrrell wrote:
| I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get the
| garbage you see below. This problem is on all servers I install Red Hat
| on. I have this problem no matter how I access the server Xwindows or
| Telnet. I've also tried different terminal types. When I print the man
| page it looks just as bad.
|
| Any help would be appreciated Thanks.
|
| NAME
|        lp â send requests to an LPRng print service
|
| SYNOPSIS
|        lp [ âA ] [ âB ] [ âc ] [ âG ] [ âm ] [ âp ] [ âs ] [ âw ] [ âd
| dest ]
|             [ âf formâame [ âd any ] ] [ âH specialâandling ]
|             [ ân number ] [ âo option ] [ âP pageâist ]
|             [ âq priorityâevel ] [ âS characterâet [ âd any ] ]
|             [ âS printâheel [ ât title ]
|             [ âT contentâype [ âr ] ] [ ây modeâist ]
|             [ âX path ] [ âD debugâptions ]
|             [ file...  ]


Quick fix:

LANG=C man <command>

Bigger fix:

Change the line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

to

LANG="C"


Who knows why man doesn't recognize en_US.UTF-8 or why Red Hat
packaged i18n one way inadvertently breaking man in the process.

- -Rick
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Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc.
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