Trailing "m"s at the end of every line when viewing man pages
I am experiencing a very strange phenomenon. I have an old IBM 3151
ASCII display terminal that has been lying around the house;
and today I decided to see if I could get it connected up to one
of my PCs, which runs Debian GNU/Linux (jessie). I was successful
in doing this. But when I login to Debian from the IBM 3151 terminal,
I have noticed some strange goings on. The system locale is
en_US.UTF-8. But of course this old terminal is mostly 7-bit ASCII,
though it does support vt100 graphic character escape sequences for
box drawing. I have modified ~/.bashrc so that if the terminal type
($TERM) is ibm3151, I set LANG to en_US, and that has solved some
problems. But when I issue the MAN command, I see lower-case "m"s
at the end of each line.
I tried searching the internet with the keywords
trailing m at the end of each line with man
but it produced no useful results. Ideas, anyone?
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