{"id":65,"date":"2005-10-16T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/16\/fixing-invalid-charset-name-message-in"},"modified":"2005-10-16T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T11:57:53","slug":"fixing-invalid-charset-name-message-in-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/16\/fixing-invalid-charset-name-message-in-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing ‘invalid charset name’ message in Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

\n It seems that Debian<\/a> always finds some way
\n to have small niggling issues that end up being a major problem if you follow
\n unstable. Unstable is very good for getting the latest packages prebuilt however
\n as it is said. It’s unstable.\n <\/p>\n

\n My latest issue was anytime I used the command man<\/b> I got the following:
\n
\n
\n # man man
\n Reformatting man(1), please wait…
\n invalid charset name
\n man: command exited with status 256: \/usr\/bin\/zsoelim \/tmp\/zmanQKj7sy | \/usr\/bin\/tbl | \/usr\/bin\/nroff -mandoc -rLL=79n -rLT=79n -Tascii8 | iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t EUC-JP | \/usr\/bin\/pager -s
\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n Not exactly what I would call an easy to debug message. After googling I found
\n a Japanese page that dealt with this
\n problem<\/a>.
\n The basic gist of the page is that the default version of less that comes with
\n Debian will barf if you’re not living in ASCII world. One solution is to go back
\n to good old more<\/b> or use jless<\/b>, which is a version that is happy with
\n Japanese.\n <\/p>\n

\n You can do that by running the following commands (as root):
\n
\n apt-get install jless
\n update-alternatives –config pager
\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n

\n Debian keeps track of the default pager in its system in \/etc\/alternatives\/pager.
\n And you need to remember to use update-alternative<\/b> to get it fixed.
\n Problems solved and now I can go on happily computing.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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