----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilkinson" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > It looks like you're using a Microsoft mail client. How did you copy > and paste that manpage? Are you using a Windows telnet or ssh client? > > If not, which terminal *are* you using? Does this persist between > gonme-terminal, xterm, and the Linux console (press CTRL-Alt-F1 to > log in). > > Can you post the output of echo $LANG and echo $TERM, letting us know > which terminal you are using? > > Thanks, > > James. Yes, I am using outlook as client ( my desktop system is still a windows machine ) Anyway, after searching with google I found someone telling that it could be a putty problem and I had to change translation in putty to UTF-8. After doing that everything looked fine again. cheer Edwin
