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Weird characters in man pages ?
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| Hello list,
After a clean RH 8.0 installation is see "weird" characters
in my man pages. For example, "man ping":
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NAME
ping, ping6 â send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
<snip>
DESCRIPTION
ping uses the ICMP protocolâs mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to
elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST
datagrams ââpingsââ) have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a struct
timeval and then an arbitrary number of ââpadââ bytes used to fill
out the packet.
<snip>
OPTIONS
âa Audible ping.
âA Adaptive ping. Interpacket interval adapts to roundâtrip time,
so that effectively not more than one (or more, if preload is
set) unanswered probes present in the network. Minimal interval
is 200msec for not superâuser. On networks with low rtt this
mode is essentially equivalent to flood mode.
âb Allow pinging a broadcast address.
<..much text follows..>
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As you can see some characters are replaced by the "â" char. I've
googled arround but could'nt find a good answer to this question.
Hope someone can shine a light on this situation ?
thanks in advance,
David
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| Lenard 2004-01-23, 7:10 pm |
| On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:31:32 +0100, David typed:
quote:
> Hello list,
>
> After a clean RH 8.0 installation is see "weird" characters in my man
> pages. For example, "man ping":
>
> ---------
> NAME
> ping, ping6 â send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
>
>
<snip>
quote:
> Hope someone can shine a light on this situation ?
It's not a hard thing to find info on, and it's been known about for a
while now. Please read the RELEASE-NOTES found on the first CD. One way to
fix the problem is to, as root modify your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file,
example below;
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en:en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
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| Lenard 2004-01-23, 7:10 pm |
| On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:31:32 +0100, David typed:
quote:
> Hello list,
>
> After a clean RH 8.0 installation is see "weird" characters in my man
> pages. For example, "man ping":
>
> ---------
> NAME
> ping, ping6 â send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
>
>
<snip>
quote:
> Hope someone can shine a light on this situation ?
It's not a hard thing to find info on, and it's been known about for a
while now. Please read the RELEASE-NOTES found on the first CD. One way to
fix the problem is to, as root modify your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file,
example below;
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en:en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
--
SCO + RICO Act = Justice
Hi! I'm a .sig virus! Copy me to your .sig!
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