smart(?) quotes and man pages

John Rothschild devnull13 at comcast.net
Sat Sep 24 23:18:21 UTC 2005


Hi,

I'm having a problem with smart(?) quotes when displaying man pages on 
a remote RHEL 4 machine.  Instead of showing up as quotes, they are 
showing up as special characters or escape characters.  The locale is 
set to "en_US.UTF-8", but changing it to "en_US" or "C" doesn't help.  
Described below is an example of the problem.  Any ideas you may have 
are greatly appreciated.

Scenario:

1.  ssh (or telnet) from a non-RHEL 4 machine  (RHEL 3.x or Solaris 8 
have been used as test machines) to a machine running RHEL 4.
2.  Run 'man ls'
3.  Search for dired (It's about a page down.)
4.  On the next line that starts with "generate output", do you see a 
quote after the word "emacs" or do you see special characters?

			JR


JR devnull13 at comcast.net
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