X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B4523BC.8050508@csiro.au> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:58:52 +1000 From: Wes Barris User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Weird characters in man pages Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 just installed Cygwin 1.7.1 and Puttycyg 20091228. When I viewed a man page I saw the letter 'a' with two dots above it instead of '-' characters. So, knowing that Cygwin 1.7 now used UTF-8, I changed my character translation set in Puttycyg to UTF-8 for my Cygwin session. Now man pages have fat half-height vertical bars instead of '-' characters. I don't know if this is a Putty, Puttycyg, or Cygwin issue. I am asking here in case anyone has any insight about this issue. Thanks. -- Wes Barris -- 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