In man pages a wrong character ( upside down exclamation mark (!, just upside down)) is used to perform word breaks. Example : blah blah bla blah bla! lah bla instead of : blah blah bla blah bla- lah bla Running man on VT1, LANG=en_US , LC_ALL is unset
Works for me... Which console font/charset are you using?
This is my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file , hope it answers your question. I just boot up and do not make any changes, just run "man ls" , for exmaple : LANG="en_US" SUPPORTED="bs_BA:bs:hr_HR:hr:en_CA:en:en_GB:en:en_IE@euro:en_IE:en:en_US:en:fi_F I@euro:fi_FI:fi:fr_CA:fr:fr_FR@euro:fr_FR:fr:de_AT@euro:de_AT:de:de_DE@euro:de_D E:de:hu_HU:hu:it_IT@euro:it_IT:it:mk_MK:mk:sl_SI:sl:es_ES@euro:es_ES:es" SYSFONT="lat0-sun16" SYSFONTACM="iso01
Odd, can't reproduce it with the exact same settings. [root@zell root]# rpm -q man console-tools man-1.5j-5 console-tools-19990829-36 Please reopen if you can reproduce this anywhere else/find a way to make it reproducable.
I am working with Hampton beta-1. If I rename/remove the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and relogin, then the problem is gone. But if I do this, the it is back : echo -n -e '\033(K' LANG=en_US man ls I have man-1.5j-2 and no console-tools installed.
The problem is that you're still using the kbd package from 8.x along with a 7.x system. That's not going to work. Install console-tools from the current tree.