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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Weird characters in man pages
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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:29:15AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> While talking to some people (chouser) on #gentoo last night, I realized
> that I wasn't the only one seeing weird <AD> characters wherever a
> hyphen was supposed to appear in a man page.  After a bit of research we 
> found that setting LESSCHARSET=latin1 fixes the problem.  Perhaps this
> should be in the baselayout /etc/profile?

Good research, you two!  Could you do me a favor and also try tweaking 
/etc/man.conf so that all references of -Tlatin1 are changed to -Tascii?
Maybe this will do the trick.  I'm not sure what solution is better, but
it seems that if we can fix this problem by correcting man.conf (rather 
than adding a special less-specific env var), then that would be the way
to go.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.