topic Re: strange characters!! in Operating System - Linux

strange characters!!

Lorenzo Facello — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:48:34 GMT

When I open pages of man I notice that some character are wrong.
For example in this case all the "-" are "??".
Regards.

Re: strange characters!!

Balaji N — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:53:18 GMT

most probably problem with terminal settings.

check your TERM settings.
-balaji

Re: strange characters!!

John Dvorchak — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:06:39 GMT

What is result of:
echo $TERM

Should be the same as the terminal emulator that you are using on the client.

Re: strange characters!!

Stuart Browne — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:18:57 GMT

I figured out what this was recently (ok, so I found the answer on Google!), and it has nothing to do with the temrinal 'type'.

It has to do with the emulation software you are using not supporting Unicode characters.

To fix this, you've got two choices:

1) change emulation software to something that does support Unicode (International) character sets.

2) change the LANG environment to something simpler when using man, like this:

env LANG=C man

Hope this helps you out.

Re: strange characters!!

T G Manikandan — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:56:16 GMT

If you are using English.Then try setting

LANG=en_US
export LANG

Revert

Re: strange characters!!

Tibor Bajnok — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:12:49 GMT

It was the same situation with RH 8.
The default charset was UTF-8.
I realized not sufficient just TERM=en_US
but TERM=en_US.ISO-8859-2 (according to
user's country).
You can see these settings by 'locale' command.

Re: strange characters!!

Tibor Bajnok — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:53:41 GMT

Sorry,
not TERM=en_US.ISO-8859-2 but
naturally LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-2

I apologize writing that.