ESC Seuqences in Konsole

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 13 18:05:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:53:41 -0400, PJH 
  <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
> Running PCLOS...
>
> When I use the man command in a Konsole window, I see  a lot of ESC 
> sequences printed literally (instead of having the screen take the 
> action desired).
>
> Is there a configuration for that?
>
Perhaps you are seeing UTF-8 character codes, not escape sequences.  
Either enable UTF-8 in Konsole, or add this line to your .bashrc:
alias man="LANG=C man"


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