weird output of characters

[Hicham Mouline]

hello,
i get weird characters in man pages. Here's an example from "man find"

OPTIONS
       The â-Hâ, â-Lâ and â-Pâ options control 

the chars surrounding -H and -L and -P....  (i don't know the charset used by this mail agent i'm posting with...)

My env variables are :
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
EDITOR=vi
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PS1=[\u@\h:\w]
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
SHLVL=1
CVS_RSH=ssh
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
_=/bin/env
uname -a
Linux ... 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

less --version
less 394
Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman

I don't have any LC* env vars, I suppose LANG replaces those.

Any clues?
regards,