[TriLUG] redhat 8 terminal session character weirdness

[Doug Taggart]

Well,
The peril is really offset by having a good resource group to turn too..  ;)
9 minute response time AIN'T to shabby!

Thanks Wade and Jeremy!

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:49, H. Wade Minter wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Doug Taggart wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I have one odd thing happening, I'm fairly sure someone on this list
>>>will be able to help.
>>>When I'm on the box remotely on a ms-win machine via securecrt things
>>>like man pages display
>>>
>>>âEUR?
>>>instead of
>>>- characters, and other character replacement oddities.
>>>      
>>>
>>Try setting the variable LANG=c - I've noticed some weirdness with the
>>"internationalized" character set Red Hat 8 uses by default, too.
>>
>>To test and see if that makes a difference, run:
>>
>>minter at localhost$ LANG=c man tar
>>    
>>
>
>Yeah, I am now by default putting LANG=C in my .bashrc
>
>You can also switch the language to en_US in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and
>reboot; this will make ALL of your applications go back to en_US instead
>of UTF-8.
>
>Turns out the problem with man is ultimately caused by a bash bug in
>dealing with environment variables, or at least that's what it looks
>like from the various bugzilla bugs...
>
>This is a peril of a *.0 release from Red Hat...
>
>--Jeremy
>
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