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B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

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Funky character codes

In most/all of my man pages, I get funky (presumably?)character codes like "<80><99>*<80><99>" and "<88><92>^H<88><92>s" at random. At first I thought it was just quotation marks, but they're showing up in the middle of words at random.

I don't remember when it started, maybe a week or two ago, but when it did I just ignored it. It's proved annoying, though, and shows up about once a paragraph in every man file. Nothing about it in the wiki.

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Funky character codes

Seems related to this bug:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7477

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Funky character codes

I can confirm this bug, but I am not using Russian character encoding. I use English... and after reading that bug report on flyspray I am still confused on how to fix this issue.

I get this error when trying to use man-db

man: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Pierres stated in the AUR

You shuld recompile against new db 4.6:

what does this mean? I should just recompile the package instead of installing the binary from community, or do other things like the PKGBUILD need to change?

Last edited by jacko (2008-02-11 15:55:32)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Funky character codes

ok, I fixed this issue by compiling the man-db 2.5.0 PKGBUILD from the cvs. DO NOT try and download with pacman as the one in the official x86_64 community repository is the old version 2.4.4.

look here for more info.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43765

Last edited by jacko (2008-02-12 00:13:34)

B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: Funky character codes

OK, thanks.

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_adam_

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From: Dora, Alabama

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 94

Re: Funky character codes

I fixed it by putting

export LC_ALL=C

in my ~/.bashrc

B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: Funky character codes

Nice, that's much simpler. Fixed it for me.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Funky character codes

I fixed it by putting

export LC_ALL=C

in my ~/.bashrc

and what does that mean?

cron-B once u upgrade to 2.5.0 u won't need this setting.