pindakoe Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 When displaying manual page of something inside an (rxvt) terminal window I frequently (probably allways) do not get the hyphens and single quotes displayed. Instead rxvt displays inverted question marks, dashed squares or other non-standard characters (see attachments for examples). Similar problem happens when using the console (Ctrl-alt-F2 etc etc), though the 'strange' characters are different. This does not happen when using vte (the MCC terminal emulator). Any suggestions what to investigate? Attachments: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Try reconfiguring your locale, in terminal: localedrake Then log out/log in, see if this works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 When displaying manual page of something inside an (rxvt) terminal window -snip- rxvt displays inverted question marks, dashed squares or other non-standard characters I believe the problem you're having is that rxvt is unable to display in UTF-8 encoding. I would suggest using rxvt-unicode or xterm to view man pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted December 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Thanks for the hint -- urxvt indeed does the job (whilst staying small and nimble like rxvt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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