[wplug] man font problem - RH8

[Brian Medley]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:19:31PM -0400, Scott Eicher wrote:

> I'm having a strange font problem in RH8. We have it installed on a couple
> servers here and when we try to bring up a man page, say for ls we get these
> type of strange characters in the page:
> NAME
>        ls â list directory contents
> âa, ââall
>               do not hide entries starting with .
> 
> These servers have been upgraded from RH 7.1 or 7.2. I was able to fix the
> problem on one server by upgrading the groff package from an older version
> to groff-1.18-6. The other servers already have the 1.18-6 version and when
> I try to force an upgrade with the command rpm -Uvh --force groff*.rpm it
> doesn't seem to fix the problem, the man pages still have the strange fonts.

try the following:

    $ LANG=en_US
    $ man ls

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