[KLUG Members] re: 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.  
> >
> That fixed it.  How and where do you put that in the startup?

You can change it globally (all users) by editing:  /etc/sysconfig/i18n

You may also need to edit the config file for your login manager.
i.e.  for Gnome:  /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

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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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