Re: Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??

2004-06-04 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On Friday 04 June 2004 04:43 am, Conall O'Brien wrote: > > The dash in front of "copy files and directories" is OK, but not the > > later ones. > > > > Any idea what gives? > > What enviromental variables have you set? The output of "locale" without > any parameters will tell you. > > > Personally,

Re: Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??

2004-06-04 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:00:42AM IST, Peter Sebastian Masny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: > Hi all, > > Many of my man pages have problems with the character "-". Sometimes the > character is shown correctly. Other times I get a box or more. I use UTF8 > on my sid system. > >

Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, Many of my man pages have problems with the character "-". Sometimes the character is shown correctly. Other times I get a box or more. I use UTF8 on my sid system. $locale charmap UTF-8 For example, "map cp": ... >cp - copy files and directories > > SYNOPSIS >cp [O