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: =?UTF-8?B?U3ZlbiBLw7ZobGVy?= Subject: Re: [1.7] Recent build failures (grap and nano) and strange characters in error log Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:42:17 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4B6060FD.7010705@bonhard.uklinux.net> <416096c61001270933w6ced1386n77c3f4dd15680f6c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100125 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <416096c61001270933w6ced1386n77c3f4dd15680f6c@mail.gmail.com> 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 Am 27.01.2010 18:33, schrieb Andy Koppe: > 2010/1/27 Fergus: >> Q2 I attach the error log (only 6 lines) when attempting "make" after a >> successful "./configure" of grap v.1.43. I am particularly surprised at and >> bothered by the intrusive strange characters. > > It's due to using rxvt with a UTF-8 locale, which rxvt does not support. > >> Should I be re-setting LANG or otherwise adjusting my environment? > > Yep, either use a different terminal or set LANG to something that > rxvt supports, e.g. en_GB.ISO-8859-1. different terminal = mintty It's available via cygwin's setup. mintty also has an options dialog, in which the locale/charset for cygwin can be adjusted. Regards, Sven -- 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