[plug] Annoyances

[Craig Ringer]

Onno Benschop wrote:

> In addition. If I do man apt-get, I don't see the hyphen between the
> words using xterm for the first paragraph, but I do see that in
> gnome-terminal - there was a time when the - never showed up in man
> pages, very exciting trying to learn command line options - but that now
> seems to work.

That was a known bug in Red Hat 8 ;-) . In Red Hat, it was related to 
the transition to UTF-8 and some problems with terminal emulation, so I 
think you're probably on the right track. The RH8 issue was solved by 
setting the LANG env var to 'en_AU' or 'C' before running the problem 
command(s).

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Craig Ringer