Re: "â" character

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:00:49 -0400

"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
news:ish7k1-5qh.ln1@don.localnet...
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:17:05 GMT, Brian Walker
> <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> > I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat
8).
> > How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> > when ever I attempt to read a man
> > page
> >
> > Cheers
>
> I've never used putty, so I don't know if it can be set to use UTF-8
> encoding. If not, then put "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" in your .bashrc or
> .bash_profile.

I like "export LANG=POSIX" myself. I find the internationalization of
character sets to usually be a destabilizing and error-prone process, and
whoever configured the default "en_US" character set should be shot with
Mars lander. They mucked up alphabetization and made it case-insensitive,
which completely screws up the ability to sort in a case sensitive way and
breaks lots of tools.

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