Unusual characters displayed... missing a locale or..? [solved]

What is the cause of these usual characters when I "man patch"? Am I missing a locale or something?
Last edited by graysky (2011-10-19 17:29:53)

@SF - I think I am:
$ grep utf8 /etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
$ grep en_US /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
The screenshot came from terminal 0.4.8 using monospace/10.  HOWEVER, if I install gnome-terminal and look at the same manpage, I do indeed see a bullet point!  Perhaps this is a limitation of terminal?
EDIT: Yes!  This is the problem.  I followed the advice on this wiki page adding the following to /etc/environment:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Rebooted and now there are no funny characters.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Last edited by graysky (2011-10-19 17:30:06)

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