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Re: man pages showing special characters

Paul Bibbings:
> FWIW, I am experiencing exactly the same problems as the OP. ÂI have
> mintty set up to use (under Options):
>
>  Locale    : en_GB
> Â Character set: UTF-8
>
> which matches...
>
> Â 19:59:13 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> Â ~ $env | grep LANG
> Â LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>
> Â 19:59:25 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> Â ~ $env | grep LC_ALL
>
> Â 20:00:29 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> Â ~ $env | grep LC_TYPE
>
> and all man pages - or all the ones that I have checked, which are many
> - are certainly unable to render `-' at least.

What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'?

Andy

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