ssh viewing mana pages, newb question

[t. scott urban]

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(’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).

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 at apptechsys.com>