Man Doesn't Work

[Bill Vance]

Finally managing to get bak to it.....


On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Does
> LANG=C man command_name
> or
> LC_ALL=C man command_name
> work?

Yes they do.

> Did you run locale-gen and dpkg-reconfigure locales?

[SNIP]

I get:

# locale-gen
Generating locales...
   en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

and:

# dpkg-reconfigure localesGenerating locales...
   en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.


> What's the output of locale -a?

# locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8


Nothing like the long lists you guys get.

I'm also seeing some weird messages about whether some
emails are utf8 or not, etc.


Bill