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arnuld 01-12-2009 01:40 AM
Can' open any "man page"
 
when I try to open some man page I get this:

Quote:
XXX
XXX WARNING: old character encoding and/or character set
XXX
Code:
[arnuld@dune ~]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

irishbitte 01-12-2009 03:50 PM
please tell us what man page you are opening, and what command you are using to open it.

arnuld 01-19-2009 10:55 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by irishbitte (Post 3406219)
please tell us what man page you are opening, and what command you are using to open it.
I am glad that you are helping me and that is a very childish question. I am trying to open any man page:

Code:
man ls
man dmesg
man grub
man wmii
man grep
all throw the same error I posted earlier. Also when I open this web-page I can see the contents without any problem but I also see the same error written on the top of the page.

irishbitte 01-19-2009 11:53 PM
This looks like it might point you in the right direction: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...acter-set.html

arnuld 01-21-2009 12:02 AM
Thanks and it does not help.

irishbitte 01-21-2009 05:56 PM
Hmm, well unfortunately with Arch, one of the problems is that you have probably configured an obscure setting somewhere in a .conf file that is affecting this.

camphor 01-21-2009 08:00 PM
Were they working on this install at one time? Is it an older edition of a distro? Though it's a little late, I can't think of any other reasons besides a problem in text encoding. It's very strange that you'd be using UTF-8 and man thinks that it's a much older encoding..

arnuld 01-22-2009 01:52 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by irishbitte (Post 3416723)
Hmm, well unfortunately with Arch, one of the problems is that you have probably configured an obscure setting somewhere in a .conf file that is affecting this.
This is not Arch. Arch is at my home machine, if it could be on Arch, it could have been solved easily :)

This is my office machine running on CentOS 4.6. the stupid RPM thing.

arnuld 01-22-2009 01:53 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by camphor (Post 3416823)
Were they working on this install at one time? Is it an older edition of a distro? Though it's a little late, I can't think of any other reasons besides a problem in text encoding. It's very strange that you'd be using UTF-8 and man thinks that it's a much older encoding..
yes, its very old - CentOS 4.6. RPM based distros and Ubuntu are full of surprises anyway.


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