ssh viewing mana pages, newb question

[Alexander Dalloz]

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(’A Simple Example’),
>                 h1(’A Simple Example’),
>                 start_form,
>                 "What’s your name? ",textfield(’name’),p,
>                 "What’s the combination?", p,
>                 checkbox_group(-name=>’words’,
> 
> 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).

> -id

Alexander


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