Strange symbols in man-pages

Ruslan Mahmatkhanov cvs-src at yandex.ru
Sun Jan 24 07:49:51 UTC 2010


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.


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