Having problems reading man pages...

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sun Sep 13 08:38:11 EDT 2009


Out of curiousity, what do these environment variables do?  on my Arch 
Linux system, LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 but LC_MESSAGES is not set at 
all.  I'll have to observe next time I'm in a console if any thare are 
any issues with funny characters.

On 07/22/2009 06:32 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:
>> 	Is this one of those iso/utf-8 quirks or something that can be
>> fixed by setting something in the environment,
>
> Michael,
> Try setting your LANG and LC_MESSAGES environment variables to en_US
> on login.  It does look like a UTF-8 problem.
>
> -- Chris
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