man page formatting problem?

Hi,

I've noticed this about man pages displayed in an X terminal application such as xterm, etc. --- the dashes (hyphens) and quotation marks don't show up (in xterm), and when they do (in Konsole), it's sporadic --- some show, and others show up as weird-looking characters.

I think this is a problem with GNU nroff, which formats the man pages, but I don't know where to go from there. This hasn't been a problem for me until recently, because I've just started copying examples from man pages.

I was hoping someone here could give me a couple of pointers.

Thanks,
Yawar Amin
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try

export LC_ALL=C

it seems to be a locale problem with man

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