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NOTE: boring, completely non-relevant technical content follows:

    The man pages in RedHat 8 are in UTF-8 format (Unicode).

    The following should solve the problem; In /etc/sysconfig/i18n change LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="en_US"

Now I will always know where to find you...my sweet little term fix.
weird chars in man pages on redhat 8 and ssh October 10, 2003