help with missing font (Fedora 15)

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:19:23 -0500 Paul Flo Williams
<flo at uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:

> On 09/01/2011 03:20 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:13:35 -0500 Paul Flo Williams
> >
> >> The font issue (seeing<80><98>lm<80><99>) is actually an encoding
> >> issue in the man page you're looking at. It appears that the document
> >> is using Windows curly quotes, which are not at their standard Unicode
> >> positions. This would be a bug in the package that supplies that man page.
> >
> > Possible. But many of these webpages have not changed. Is it possible
> > that previously, I this was not an issue because I was using the
> > Microsoft TrueType Fonts, rather than Liberation now?
> 
> Hmm, I got this bit wrong. Having checked the help page in question, I 
> can see that, on my box, the rendered help page (produced from HTML 
> source) seems to have the bytes:
> 
> E2 80 98 l m E2 80 99
> 
> which is the UTF-8 encoding for U+2018 lm U+2019, so ignore what I said 
> about Windows encodings.
> 
> If there was a locale discrepancy between R and your terminal, I'd 
> expect to see <e2><80><98>lm<e2><80><99> on the display, but your 
> display misses the <e2>, which leaves me more confused.
> 
> That *still* means it shouldn't have anything to do with your 
> particular font.
> 
> What locale are you using?

I am sorry that I am a little lost here, but how do I figure this out?
Or change the locale, if needed?

Many thanks again(!!) and best wishes,
Ranjan