[SOLVED] Weird characters in man pages

Hi,
I remember I had read a similar thread, but I can't find it anymore.
My problem is that man pages show strange characters and it's quite difficult to read at times. Here is an example:
The traditional protocol for writing to someone is that the string <80><98>-o', either at the end of a line or on a line by itself, means that it's the other person's turn to talk. The string
<80><98>oo' means that the person believes the conversation to be over.
How do I fix this?
Thanks.
Last edited by finferflu (2008-02-27 17:53:23)

Hello
Here is a post on that problem if you can read french : http://forums.archlinuxfr.org/viewtopic.php?id=1084
The members suggested to replace
export LESSCHARSET="utf8"
by
export LESSCHARSET="UTF-8"
in /etc/profile.
One suggest to replace the line inside /etc/man.conf (from the gentoo wiki fr)
NROFF iconv -f utf8 -t iso8859-1 | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -c -mandoc
I must admit that it doesn't work for me neither, and the above does not solve the problem. The file I tested is UTF-8 encoded and the LESSCHARSET defined to use UTF-8 gives badly accentuated characters (But at least printable characters). I think you will have to tweak a little these lines, but it's a start.
Note that these lines suit (or don't suit) french man pages, but you may have to change the given charsets (especially latin1).
Hope it will help you search
Cilyan
Edit: Ah, time to write the answer, the problem is solved !
Edit2: The tip given by dyscoria does not work for me.
Last edited by Cilyan (2008-02-27 18:01:57)

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Weird Characters appering in the browser

My company's product help file is generated in WebHelp, but
on the web I see in some pages showing some weird characters. When
I checked my source file as actually what characters are they in
the file, I see that the trademark signs (TM) , single quotes, and
double quotes are appearing as a ? inside a diamond. I went through
the script generated by Webhelp and see the character set Webhelp
is using as charset=windows-1252, Can't we change it to UTF-8 so
that its a universal character set and is recognize on all
platforms and browsers.
Please let me know if there is a solution.
Thanks,
Ashish

UTF-8 is the norm with RH7. If you cannot upgrade, or do not
want to, take a copy of your output and try changing it manually in
one topic. If it works then use a multi file find and replace tool.

[SOLVED] Weird characters in man pages

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