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Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog.


Having recently by accident trashed my home folder, and having had to rebuild from one saved from a much older install (1.7.0 or even earlier), I noticed my man pages were again displaying with garbage text in between the readable text -- nonprintable characters, Unicode litter and the like. I remembered Corinna Vinschen had posted something quite a while back in a topic thread that dealt with this issue; I am sure it made it into the archives for this list, but I wasn't able to find it. I vaguely recalled one detail had something to do with setting one's environment variable to C instead of C.utf_8 or even en_us.utf8. So just as a trial-and-error, not-so-monstrous-it-cant-be-changed-back sort of thing, I tried it and opened the man page for an application that didn't come from any of the usual places (at least not in the version or build I happen to be running) and it worked like a charm. Now I just have to *string around the finger time* remember to change the LANG line in System>Advanced>Environment Variables {or its alternate route via My Computer, which I'm sure most of you know} to the same thing.

Plain old *C*. Whowuddathottitt?

Steve Wright

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