How to make man outputs in English look in good shape?

UNIX Solaris
1

Hi,

My question is how to make man outputs in English look in good shape.

I use OpenSolais with a locale setting "LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8". Under this circumstance running "man something" shows Japanese translated man pages, but I need to read original English man explanations occasionally.
"LANG=C man something" or "LANG=C ; export LANG" changes man page in English, however the outputs of some man pages (not all) crush out of good format and are hard to read.

Could someone please help me on how to make it in a good format?
Thank you,

My usual locale settings

$ locale
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
$

After changing LANG, then ran "man sar" command as an example

$ LANG=C ; export LANG
$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES=ja_JP.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
$
$ man sar

                           sar(1)

sar -

sar [-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy] [-o filename] t [n]

sar [-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy] [-e time] [-f filename] [-i sec]
 [-s time]

sar

t                                              n
t
5       t
(
5                                         sar
)
-o

filename   n
1

sar
                                  filename
-f

/var/adm/sa/sadd                                         (dd
)
-s   -e
hh[:mm[:ss]]        time    -i
                           sec

                              sar

-a
            :
            iget/s, namei/s, dirblk/s

/tmp/mpj_a4.e
2

IF I understand - you CAN read the man pages in Japanese, but you cannot read the exact same man pages in English.

Changing locale does not change the content (Japanese) of the man pages, it will not translate from Japanese to English.

If you have a separate set of man pages that are English text, then reset MANPATH to point to them.

When you switch back to Japanese, reset MANPATH again.

3

Hello Jim,

I can read the Japanese translated version man pages. I ALSO CAN call the original English ones by changing the local. I am aware that they are different and that changing the local can not translate the contents themselves.

The problem is the English ones appear out of good proportion on screen when I call them by changing to LANG=C on my Japanese OpenSolaris env... Extra spaces are inserted between the words as if the pages are taken apart and broken.

I see...I will go with your suggestion. This could handle my situation much better, I guess.

Thank you for the good tip!

Fragile_it