From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 09:46:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B086106564A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 09:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (kontrol.kode5.net [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4B68FC08 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 09:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q969jqYp039648 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:45:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q969jqcc039647 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:45:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kontrol.kode5.net: jamie set sender to jamie@kode5.net using -f Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:45:52 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20121006094552.GA39590@kontrol.kode5.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <99771.1349515504@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <99771.1349515504@tristatelogic.com> x-operating-system: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 x-pgp-fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38 x-pgp-key: 1D31DC38 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at kontrol.kode5.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Xterm options for correct man page display? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:46:01 -0000 [ Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 2:25:04 -0700 ] > > When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming > out a bit garbled. > > I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for > xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would > tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks. It will most likely be due to your locale settings. Also, I experimented with fonts in xterm and uxterm, only the default font allowed unicode charaters to display, so I am now using urxvt and it works great. I also changed my pager option in the shell start up file to less as opposed to more, and set lesscharset environment variable, man pages display fine now for me.