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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:51:12 -0500
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Following the guidelines related to cygwin 1.7, I have
generally been using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. But I found that
if I do "man <whatever>" to get a man page, and then
search (I have man's "more" program set to "less") for
a string having a dash in it, say to search for -a in the
rsync man page to find the description of that flag, it
fails to match.

This is because with that LANG setting, for a hyphen/dash
man produces a three-byte UTF sequence. The same happens
for LANG=C.UTF-8. The way I have found around it is to
use LANG=C.

Thoughts about this as a "problem"? Is it a problem? Is
there a better way?

Thanks -- Eliot
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