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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:28:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: Question marks in localized man pages
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
To: Ilya Basin <basinilya AT gmail DOT com>, "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Saturday, September 11, 2010, Ilya Basin wrote:
> Hi. My default LANG is C.UTF-8. If I change it to ru.UTF-8, all
> non-ascii characters in man pages are displayed as question marks.

ru.UTF-8 isn't a valid locale setting; you need a territory in there
as well, e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8, otherwise you end up in the ASCII-only C
locale.

Andy

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