[25505] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.27: man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 12 20:33:59 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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> many if not all man pages on linux are currently broken (try
Not all of them are, but many of the ones with non-ASCII charactere
are. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103214
for (a rather confusing set of) details.
> However I believe setting LANG to en-US.UTF-8 fixes the problem. If this
> doesn't have other side-effects, can we set this in the release?
This would have wide-ranging effects. There might be cause to set a
locale in the next full release (which will likely have fixed the man
command anyway), but not in a patch release.
