On Sat, November 10, 2007 11:49 am, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2007 10:47:42 AM:

> I think that means your terminal (or screen or something) doesn't
> support Unicode.  You can get around this by specifying the environment
> variable LANG to use an older format.  The following should work: bash$
> LANG=C man screen
> or to set it for all future commands bash$ export LANG=C bash$ man screen
>
> That tells it to use the default "C" locale which is really
> old-fashioned, but should be compatible with just about anything.  (C as in
> the programming language.)


Jeremy, thanks

well.... it's certainly made a difference...
now I get like:
 <E2><80><98><E2><80><98>unknown<E2><80><99>

and, later in the same 'man' outputs lots and lots more of the<><> things...
somehow, I think I should've left like it was...




-- 
Voytek

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