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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:26:27 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Durwin De La Rue
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 13:57
> Subject: man pages showing special characters
> 
> I have searched the archive on this with complicated results.
> 

I have had this on and off for a while, at the moment using the latest of all,
man bash and man rsync works for me.

> First, I am using latest version of cygwin.  I normally use 
> rxvt.  But after having this issue with it, and finding 
> information that mintty does not have the issue, I started 
> using mintty.  My first attempt to fix the issue in rxvt was 
> successful (export LANG=C).  However, at some point it 
> failed.  LANG is the same, but I again was getting special 
> characters where a hyphen (and quotes and other punctuation)  
> is suppose to be.  That is when I started using mintty.  It 
> worked right off no problems.  However *now* it is doing the 
> same.  I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf8 but 
> nothing is helping.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Here are my env vars from teraterm:

!::='::\'
!C:='C:\Program Files\teraterm'
BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="49" [3]="23" [4]="release"
[5]="i686-pc-cygwin")
BASH_VERSION='3.2.49(23)-release'
CLIENTNAME=Console
COLUMNS=146
LANG=C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LINES=63
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man
PS1='\[\e]0;$title\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
SESSIONNAME=Console
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:moni
tor
SHLVL=1
TERM=vt100

And from start->run->bash.exe:

!::='::\'
BASH=/usr/bin/bash
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="49" [3]="23" [4]="release"
[5]="i686-pc-cygwin")
BASH_VERSION='3.2.49(23)-release'
CLIENTNAME=Console
IFS=$' \t\n'
PS1='\s-\v\$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
SESSIONNAME=Console
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:moni
tor
SHLVL=1



> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Durwin

A closing thought, can one force all man pages to recompile???? Could old man
pages compiled from before cause this issue? I have only noticed it after
recently upgrading x or y.


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