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Can't view some strange characters in some of the man pages

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Message #8 received at 10136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
To: hr0201 <at> gmail.com (Harold Raulston)
Cc: 10136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10136: Can't view some strange characters in some of the man
	pages
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:22:42 -0500 (GMT+5)

Harold Raulston writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could you tell me what encoding I need to use to view your man pages?
> 
> I've tried Unicode, Western, Western ISO, but still get some unreadable
> characters in the EXAMPLES (I've just looked at the find and du commands so
> far):
> 
> =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2 linuxcommand find1 can't display re=
> ad
> 
> BTW, I'm using Win7 Pro English, IE9. All latest updates.
> I have the same problem in Chrome...

man pages are read with the man program. HTML is Not The Way.

[c3 a2 e2 82 ac c3 a2 e2 82 ac e2 84 a2] is what you get when you start with
U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK in UTF8, then misinterpret it as
windows-1252 and convert it to UTF8 again.

We were *so* unfortunate when we didn't have all these extra kinds of
quotation marks.

-- 
Alan Curry

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