Strange symbols in man-pages

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 9 14:59:43 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:49:34AM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> On 24.01.2010 04:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:34:14PM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> >> I'm viewing dd man-page in gnome with gnome-terminal and i see some
> >> strange symbols instead `-`. For example from man dd(1):
> >> http://www.onlinedisk.ru/get_image.php?id=327964
> >>
> >> The problem is rised only when i on ru_RU.UTF-8 locale. There is no
> >> problem with C-locale.
> >>
> >> Is this known problem and does anybody have a solution?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance and keep me in Cc: please (i'm not subscribed to
> >> freebsd-stable@).
> >>
> >> PS. Using 8.0-STABLE.
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053804.html
> >
> 
> So i can avoid this by setting alias in .cshrc:
> alias man env LANG=C man
> 
> Thanks.

I've fixed this recently.


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Ruslan Ermilov
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