UTF-8 locale, strange chars in X terminal pager(s), specifically man pages

From: Frederick B. Henry Jr. (fbhjr_at_fhase.net)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Greetings,

    Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
    as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
    Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:

    xterm -u8 -fn \
    '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'

    It displays the "UTF-8-demo.txt" file nicely, with the sole exception of
    Amharic Ethiopian, which is displayed as outline boxes per character.

    Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
    whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
    strange chars, e.g.:

    man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields:

    "delivering and nonâ@~^Pdelivering recipes.."

    That intercalating pattern -- â@~^PP -- is throughout the man page.

    I have tried the same in a utf-8 xterm with the same result.

    Is there some specific font I should be using? How do I get a clean man
    page in an xterm/aterm/rxvt/mlterm with a UTF-8 locale?

    output of locale:

    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=

    Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers,

    Fred Henry, Jr. 

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