Subject: Re: Strange characters appearing on man pages.
From: William K. Gibson (firstdesk@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 09:49:21 MST
on 2/20/01 1:34 PM, Paul J. Lucas at pauljlucas@mac.com wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, William K. Gibson wrote:
>
>>>> export LESSCHARSET=latin1
>>
>> Ok, that did the trick. Thanks a bunch! I'm guessing the problem was really
>> with less.
>
> Yes: man less
> However, said man page also says that latin1 is the default.
>
> - Paul
>
Yes, but futher down it says:
If neither LESSCHARSET nor LESSCHARDEF is set, but your system
supports the setlocale interface, less will use setlocale to
determine the character set. setlocale is controlled by setting
the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variables.
a call to `locale' on my system revealed:
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
I don't know if this is significant. Anyone?
--William K. Gibson
1stDesk Systems
firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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