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Description of problem: I use PuTTY SSH client v0.62, with UTF-8 translation. I noticed some man pages looking strange: LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 man iptables # look at the hypens, e.g., in the "raw" paragraph LC_ALL=C.utf8 man iptables # compare with above; all looks correct. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux myservername 3.1.6-1.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 21 23:01:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux man-pages-3.32-14.fc16.noarch glibc-common-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.i686 # locale stuff $ locale -V locale (GNU libc) 2.14.90 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 man 2. 3. Actual results: squares or weird symbols Expected results: hyphens, curly-quotes, and other symbols should show as expected. Additional info: May be related to bug #98736. This seems more a problem with en_US than with utf8.
I did a fresh F16 i686 install using the installation repo & updates repo and have been unable to reproduce this problem. I've got the same glibc, glibc-common and man-pages. I get the same man page results for en_US.utf8, C.utf8 and with no explicit locale. In each case the "raw" paragraph looks fine. I then installed putty and used that to ssh into the box and tried the same tests and again all the pages were fine. I'm closing this as WORKSFORME.