X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: tim richardson Subject: rxvt and strange characters from man Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 16 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings. This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host. when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters. The default cygwin terminal works fine. for example, if I do man man I get this kind of stuff (the characters â (letter a with a hat on) pops up a lot SYNOPSIS man [−acdfFhkKtwW] -- 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