[oclug] Encoding issues

[Walt Sullivan]

I suggest that one (some?) of your environment variables are set to
something that man misunderstands. Check the "ENVIRONMENT" paragraphs of
the man manpage (execute "man man"). On Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) I'd check
thusly:

% env | egrep 'TERM|MANOPT|SYSTEM|BROWSER|MANLESS|PAGER|MANPAGER|MANROFFSEQ|MANROFFOPT|LC_|LANG'
TERM=xterm
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal

YMMV,
Walt


On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:19 -0400, OddSox wrote:
> How do I fix this crap?
> 
> -bash-3.2$ man top - results in gibberish like...

> Is it because I'm using bash?
>