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allolex
<p>I hate to say this, but at least on my system, this problem has something to do with KDE, not with <tt>perldoc</tt>. KDE appears to have been misconfigured by Redhat so that it displays a number of escaped characters, in particular "-", as box-thingies (I do believe that is the technical term).</p>
<p>Try this experiment: do <tt>ctrl-alt-</tt>whatever and pull up a console. Check there. Now start <tt>gnome-terminal</tt> and check its output. On my system, the problem only exists in <tt>Konsole</tt> (and in <tt>xterm</tt> if you don't start it with the -u8 parameter). </p>
<p>And more specifically, the problem occurs with anything <tt>man</tt>-formatted in Konsole. Unfortunately, I'm not where to go from here except to check the Konsole docs to see if there's a UTF-8 setting that will fix it. I'll get back to you before the bitterness that is the whole KDE-under-Redhat debate bears its ugly fruit.</p>
<p>Surprised to read that your man pages are fine.</p>
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