On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 23:18 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 17.11.2004 schrieb ian douglas um 23:06: > > > I'm connecting to a Fedora Core 3 box via SSH with Linux terminal > > emulation turned on, and while directory colors show up, etc., all nice > > and pretty, and vim syntax highlighting, etc., when I run the 'man' > > command to view help files, I see extended characters and don't know how > > to correct that. > > > > For example, 'man CGI' produces the following: > > > > start_html(ÃââA Simple ExampleÃââ), > > h1(ÃââA Simple ExampleÃââ), > > start_form, > > "WhatÃââs your name? ",textfield(ÃâânameÃââ),p, > > "WhatÃââs the combination?", p, > > checkbox_group(-name=>ÃââwordsÃââ, > > > > where syntax highlighting should take place. > > > > Any ideas on how I can correct this? Is this dependant on my SSH client > > (securecrt) > > Yes, your client does not handle UTF-8 properly. Use a client which > supports UTF-8 encoding, like PuTTY (a free client in contrast to > SecureCRT). If you can't get a new client, you may have some luck by setting the LANG environment variable, e.g. LANG=C man CGI or export LANG=C man CGI I've had to do this before, but I don't recall the exact details. Could be the LC_ALL environment variable, too. -- t. scott urban <scottu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
