[R] demo() output looks garbled in default pager (less and most)

Ivailo Stoyanov istoyanov at ecolab.bas.bg
Wed May 3 13:51:28 CEST 2006


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> You are almost certainly using a UTF-8 locale and have the character set 
> for less and/or your terminal set incorrectly.  This works exactly as 
> intended on a properly configured Linux system in single-byte and UTF-8 
> locales.

Thank you very much for the hint! I'll be going into configuring the 
pagers to use UTF-8 correctly.

Cheers,
Ivailo
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