I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
when ever I attempt to read a man

page

Cheers


Brian

Brian Walker wrote:
> I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
> How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> when ever I attempt to read a man
>
> page
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Brian
>
>

http://www.frozenblue.net/tools/howt...-console-fonts

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:45:08 -0000, Brian Walker
<bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
> How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> when ever I attempt to read a man
>
> page
>
Configure putty to use the UTF-8 character set if it can, or put one of
these lines in your .bashrc:
export LANG=C
export LANG=en_UK.iso-8859-15


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"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
news:hscbh1-vdv.ln1@don.localnet...
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:45:08 -0000, Brian Walker
> <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> > I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat
8).
> > How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> > when ever I attempt to read a man
> >
> > page
> >
> Configure putty to use the UTF-8 character set if it can, or put one of
> these lines in your .bashrc:
> export LANG=C
> export LANG=en_UK.iso-8859-15

I use "export LANG=POSIX".

The problem is that the mother-licking UTF standards consistently screw up
various man pages that were written long before the standard, or even
slightly differently standard following web pages that were written more
recently. And unfortunately, tne "en_US" standard is fairly seriously
horked, ranging from the debris scattered across formerly workable man
pages, to the complete inability to be case sensitive when doing the "sort"
function.

That's right, they made the sorting function under "en_US" case-insensitive,
which *completely* mucks up lots of different tools that actually care about
case.

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:17:05 GMT, Brian Walker
<bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
> How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> when ever I attempt to read a man
> page
>
> Cheers

I've never used putty, so I don't know if it can be set to use UTF-8
encoding. If not, then put "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" in your .bashrc or
..bash_profile.

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"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
news:ish7k1-5qh.ln1@don.localnet...
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:17:05 GMT, Brian Walker
> <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
> > I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat
8).
> > How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
> > when ever I attempt to read a man
> > page
> >
> > Cheers
>
> I've never used putty, so I don't know if it can be set to use UTF-8
> encoding. If not, then put "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" in your .bashrc or
> .bash_profile.

I like "export LANG=POSIX" myself. I find the internationalization of
character sets to usually be a destabilizing and error-prone process, and
whoever configured the default "en_US" character set should be shot with
Mars lander. They mucked up alphabetization and made it case-insensitive,
which completely screws up the ability to sort in a case sensitive way and
breaks lots of tools.

"Brian Walker" <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> writes:
>I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
>How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
>when ever I attempt to read a man page

Right before you read the man page, say LANG=c

-Mike "answer only correct for some perspectives, void where prohibited"

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:00:49 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent> wrote in message
> news:ish7k1-5qh.ln1@don.localnet...
>> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:17:05 GMT, Brian Walker
>> <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> wrote:
>> > I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat
> 8).
>> > How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
>> > when ever I attempt to read a man
>> > page
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>> I've never used putty, so I don't know if it can be set to use UTF-8
>> encoding. If not, then put "LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" in your .bashrc or
>> .bash_profile.
>
> I like "export LANG=POSIX" myself. I find the internationalization of
> character sets to usually be a destabilizing and error-prone process, and
> whoever configured the default "en_US" character set should be shot with
> Mars lander. They mucked up alphabetization and made it case-insensitive,
> which completely screws up the ability to sort in a case sensitive way and
> breaks lots of tools.
>
After posting my previous reply, I installed putty, and it does
support utf-8, at least on Linux.

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"Brian Walker" <bNdOSPAMW@zoom.co.uk> writes:
>I use putty on a Windows 2000 box to connect to my Linux box (Red Hat 8).
>How do I replace the "â" character with a "-" character that is display
>when ever I attempt to read a man page

LANG=c

-Mike