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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:22:02 +0000
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Subject: Re: putty isn't displaying correctly with 1.7
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2009/12/26 Wes S :
> Below is excerpt from man file on touch. =C2=A0Highlighted text is showing
> strange characters when I use putty to ssh in. =C2=A0It was working fine
> before the 1.7 upgrade.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wes
>
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2d, =C3=A2=C3=A2date=3DSTRING
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0parse STRING and use it i=
nstead of current time
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2f =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (ignored)
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2m =C2=A0 =C2=A0 change only the modification t=
ime
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2r, =C3=A2=C3=A2reference=3DFILE
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0use this file=C3=A2s time=
s instead of current time
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2t STAMP
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]=
 instead of current time
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2=C3=A2time=3DWORD
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0change the specified time=
: WORD is access, atime, or use: equiv=C3=A2
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0alent to =C3=A2a WORD is =
modify or mtime: equivalent to =C3=A2m
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C3=A2=C3=A2help display this help and exit

Looks like you've got a mismatch between Cygwin's character set and
PuTTY's. Cygwin's default is UTF-8, whereas PuTTY's is ISO-8859-1.
Change it under Window/Translation in PuTTY's options. (Or use mintty,
which is a PuTTY derivative tailored for Cygwin, including 1.7's
locale system.)

Andy

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