[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 8.0 man pages

[Kyle Davenport]

From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
> 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.

Almost.  Look at /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
A very irritating unicode change which breaks lots of things for me.    You
have only a single font available
in terminals for instance.  It also breaks Acrobat.

Change it in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.   I set LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1"

I suppose it's New and Improved (tm) but more applications need to make the
transition first.