Red Hat Linux 5 Man Page Displays Weird Characters
This is not a new issue of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. I have seen this problem since Red Hat Linux 8 Professional and apparently it is applicable to RHEL 5.2
As shown in the following screenshot, for example, the
There might be two or more than a dozen of ways to fix it. But, I am stick at one good old trick as long as it works.
Of course, I appreciate your kindness of leaving a comment to share your alternative trick.
Simple trick to fix Linux man page from displaying weird characters
Use your favourite editor to open /etc/man.conf and append this following line:
As soon as you save the changes, Linux man page is displaying human-readable text :-).
man fstab displays some Chinese-like characters to replace original texts in fstab help page.There might be two or more than a dozen of ways to fix it. But, I am stick at one good old trick as long as it works.
Of course, I appreciate your kindness of leaving a comment to share your alternative trick.
Simple trick to fix Linux man page from displaying weird characters
Use your favourite editor to open /etc/man.conf and append this following line:
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
As soon as you save the changes, Linux man page is displaying human-readable text :-).
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2010 •
Hi,
After adding
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
into /etc/man.config, the man page is much readable.
But there is still one minor problem.
The left single quote ‘ becomes backtik `.
For example when you man find, you get
`-’
Is there any way to fix that?
Thanks,
Jinren
Please share with me too, if you get the fix of this later :-)