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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:16:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: Weird characters in man pages
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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2010/1/6 Wes Barris:
> I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1 and Puttycyg 20091228. =C2=A0When I viewed
> a man page I saw the letter 'a' with two dots above it instead of
> '-' characters. =C2=A0So, knowing that Cygwin 1.7 now used UTF-8, I chang=
ed
> my character translation set in Puttycyg to UTF-8 for my Cygwin
> session. =C2=A0Now man pages have fat half-height vertical bars instead
> of '-' characters. =C2=A0I don't know if this is a Putty, Puttycyg, or
> Cygwin issue. =C2=A0I am asking here in case anyone has any insight about
> this issue. =C2=A0Thanks.

I see you also asked on the puttycyg issue tracker.

Those characters probably are Unicode hyphens (U+2010). For some
unfathomable reason that codepoint is missing from most (all?) Windows
fonts, so you get to see the font's fallback character instead,
usually some sort of box or question mark. For this reason, mintty
replaces U+2010 with a plain ol' ASCII hyphen/minus character (0x2D).

Andy

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