X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Paul Bibbings Subject: Re: man pages showing special characters Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:56:52 +0100 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <874ojlaciz.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4BBCC76E.5070901@nmia.com> <20100408070651.07BB.E57E4DAE@nmia.com> <878w8xah30.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andy Koppe writes: > Paul Bibbings: >> FWIW, I am experiencing exactly the same problems as the OP.  I have >> mintty set up to use (under Options): >> >>   Locale       : en_GB >>   Character set: UTF-8 >> >> which matches... >> >>   19:59:13 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU >>   ~ $env | grep LANG >>   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >> >>   19:59:25 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU >>   ~ $env | grep LC_ALL >> >>   20:00:29 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU >>   ~ $env | grep LC_TYPE >> >> and all man pages - or all the ones that I have checked, which are many >> - are certainly unable to render `-' at least. > > What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'? > > Andy Well, certainly the font affects the problem. I had this set to `Courier'. However, changing this to `Courier New' solves this for me and everything renders as I would expect. For the record, using `Courier', I was getting a wide, solid vertical bar for al the `-'s. I had believed that I had set it to `Courier New' in the first place, so unless it should render properly under Courier, this is my error. Regards Paul Bibbings -- 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