X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_RX,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4C36399F.5030909@bopp.net> <4C365415.1080406@bopp.net> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5 From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 On 9 July 2010 00:01 lemkemch wrote: > If you want to continue with rxvt and want to keep it as close > as possible to the old behavior set > > export LANG=3DC.ISO-8859-1 > export LC_TIME=3DC > > in .profile Setting LANG in .profile is too late for bash itself, because that will continue to operate in C.UTF-8. That will cause trouble when entering non-ASCII characters on the command line, for example, try typing an =C3=A4 or =C3=A2. Therefore you need to set it before bash is invoked, for example in cygwin.bat if that's where you're invoking rxvt from. Andy -- 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