FixRedhat8ManpageCharacters

Ok this is an easy fix to imo a very annoying quirk. If you haven't noticed, the redhat man pages have some utf8 characters that display really poorly on some terminals, and not great on the rest. Edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change this line:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

to this:

LANG="en_US"

That's it. I found the fix here: http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=12894

You will have to relogin before it takes effect.

I changed this from the fix to /etc/man.config because perldoc also shows the utf8 characters; man.config won't fix that.

AlexFerguson - 21 Mar 2003

21 Apr 2003 update: this applies to some extent to redhat 9 also. At least 9 doesn't screw up the hyphens by default.