[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 8.0 man pages

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 13:43, Bishop, Cass wrote:
> I recently installed Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to fix a problem.  Whenever
> I view a man page I see all of "-" characters as an "a" with a "^" over it.
> I'm not sure how to go about fixing this.  Has anyone else noticed this?
> 

those are supposed to be dashes and its the language mapping.
Not sure if there is a "fix" while sticking with the default
'en_US.UTF-8' language env setting.  I prefer just 'en' as it allows for
standard ordering of files (dot-files->upercase->lowercase).

I added 
export LANG=en
to my .profile or .bashrc file because of what I mentioned above, it
also fixes this problem as well.  not sure if it breaks anything, I
haven't see anything broken.

The proper way would be fixing the mappings of - in the UTF-8 defs
(/usr/lib/locale/ I think), but I don't know how to do that right off
the top of my head.

Checkout the bugzilla report.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74706

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