Bug 77474 – When using 'man' command, it will show '-' charcter as '? character

Bug 77474 - When using 'man' command, it will show '-' charcter as '? character

Summary:	When using 'man' command, it will show '-' charcter as '? character

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	bash (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Reported:	2002-11-07 12:00 EST by Hai Wu
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:48 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-11-08 15:36:31 EST
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Description Hai Wu 2002-11-07 12:00:13 EST

Description of Problem:
When using 'man' command, it will show '-' charcter as '?
If using "echo $LANG", output is: en_US.UTF-8

Have to using "LANG=en_US man ls" in order to show '-' correctly.

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-11-07 12:14:21 EST

Are you using 'screen', or some odd terminal program?

Comment 2 Hai Wu 2002-11-08 15:36:24 EST

No I use console and Putty

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-11-11 04:41:51 EST

You need to set your terminal to use UTF-8, or else use 'LANG=C man'.

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