Problem with single quotes in man pages

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Published on 2010-04-02T13:18:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 13:23 UTC
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When I ssh into my Debian Lenny server and open a man page, single quotes appear to be messed up. Example from the man page of apt-get:

If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one of ´.´, ´?´ or ´*´ then it is assumed to be a POSIX regular expression, and it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or
removed). Note that matching is done by substring so ´lo.*´ matches ´how-lo´ and ´lowest´. If this is undesired, anchor the regular expression with a ´^´ or ´$´
character, or create a more specific regular expression.

I'm on Mac OS X and using xterm. If I use Terminal, the problem doesn't happen.

My locale is configured correctly as far as I can see:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I'm not sure what's wrong with my environment, and I have no idea what to check next. I'd appreciate help.

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