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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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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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