[KLUG Members] font or character set problem

[Bruce Smith]

> I recently installed BSWare 8.0 (#9, I think) on two machines, and have 
> a strange problem.  In man pages, or anything else that is supposed to 
> have special characters (bold, or even a dash) the special characters 
> show up as ^a or something.  It happens both at the console and SSH'd in 
> through Putty.  Any idea what's wrong here?

Try running this after logging in:

  export LANG=en_US

Then do a man page and see how it looks.

If that fixes your problem, you may wish to change your startup so it
defaults to that.  

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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