aterm/rxvt man page issues

[Robin Humble]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 07:54:33PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>| From: Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>| When I use "man" (actually a special mode of "less" on most Linux
>| systems), it does weird things when displaying "`", "'", and "-"
>| (back-tick, single quote, and hyphen).  I get the letter "a" with a
>| caret over it replacing any of them, and some extra spaces.
>These programs are outputting UTF-8 (multicharacter encoding of
>UNICODE).  In UTF-8, characters within the ASCII set have the same encoding
>as in ASCII.
>
>Other characters (eg. those you mentioned) take multiple bytes.
>ISO-8859-1 characters that are not within ASCII take two bytes.
>
>The best fix would be to convince your terminal program that it is
>expecting UTF-8 from the programs running beneath it.

or try (csh/tcsh) 
  setenv LOCALE C
(sh/bash)
  export LOCALE=C

cheers,
robin

>
>Alternatively, you could try to convince the programs to generate what
>your terminal program is expecting.  But there are a lot of programs
>to convince (including gcc!).
>
>On Fedora Core 5, changing the definition of LANG in
>/etc/sysconfig/i18n should do the trick (but I'm not sure that it
>does).
>
>I have a heck of a time with this, even when I start xterm like this:
>  LANG=en_CA xterm -lc
>I lose xterms when I display some SPAM subject lines with Chinese in
>them.  I'm generally doing this through ssh from a FC5 system to a
>RHL7.0 system, so there may be some kind of impedance mismatch in
>their handling of $LANG.  The newest devolutions of xterm confuse
>things with a helper program called "luit".
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