[KLUG Members] re: font or character set problem

[Mike Williams]

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>From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
>To: KLUG members <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
>Date: 24 Jan 2003 17:10:45 -0500
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
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>>> 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?
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>Try running this after logging in:
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>  export LANG=en_US
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>Then do a man page and see how it looks.
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>If that fixes your problem, you may wish to change your startup so it
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>defaults to that.  
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That fixed it.  How and where do you put that in the startup?