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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error reading a man page Post 302387205 by thegeek on Friday 15th of January 2010 12:38:04 AM
Old 01-15-2010
When i had some issue like this, the following helped.

Code:
export LANG=C

And the man page got displayed correctly.
 

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