X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "GMANE" Subject: Re: rxvt and strange characters from man Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:41:28 -0500 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" >> ~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt. Hopefully somebody will see us and help out. "tim richardson" wrote in message news:loom.20100104T115636-584@post.gmane.org... > I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings. > This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host. > > when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters. > The default cygwin terminal works fine. > > for example, if I do > man man > > I get this kind of stuff (the characters â (letter a with a hat on) pops > up a lot > > SYNOPSIS > man [−acdfFhkKtwW] > > > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple