Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/03/25/13:40:24
On 3/25/2010 1:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote:
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> I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However, when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will render fonts properly. I get a lot of gobbeldy-gook in rxvt. For example,
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> When I do a make and get an error, the bash shell shows …
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> ‘)’
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> While the rxvt window shows
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> ‘)â€
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> Can anybody help me set up the rxvt terminal to display fonts like the normal cygwin bash terminal?
This issue has already been covered an number of times in the past
couple months, so you should probably search the mail archives for
solutions and details. What I remember offhand is that the default
character encoding in Cygwin is now UTF8. This encoding is not
supported by rxvt though, so you'll see messes like this for any
multibyte characters.
While you could change your LANG setting to specify a character encoding
which is compatible with rxvt, a better option IMO is to switch to
mintty, which supports UTF8 and other character encodings. The rxvt
package has apparently been abandoned for a long time, even upstream, so
it will never be fixed and will eventually wither away. Mintty, on the
other hand, is quite actively supported, easy to use, and extremely
solid in my experience.
-Jeremy
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