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Durwin De La Rue:
> I have searched the archive on this with complicated results.
>
> First, I am using latest version of cygwin. =C2=A0I normally use rxvt. =
=C2=A0But after
> having this issue with it, and finding information that mintty does not h=
ave
> the issue, I started using mintty. =C2=A0My first attempt to fix the issu=
e in
> rxvt was successful (export LANG=3DC). =C2=A0However, at some point it fa=
iled.
> =C2=A0LANG is the same, but I again was getting special characters where =
a hyphen
> (and quotes and other punctuation) =C2=A0is suppose to be. =C2=A0That is =
when I
> started using mintty. =C2=A0It worked right off no problems. =C2=A0Howeve=
r *now* it is
> doing the same. =C2=A0I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf8 =
but
> nothing is helping.

What character set is selected on the Text page of mintty's options?
Where are you setting LANG and LC_ALL?

I'd recommend setting the locale and character set in the mintty
options only, which automatically sets LANG accordingly. If you set
LC_ALL or LANG to something else in your shell startup files, then
mintty won't get to know about it, and you end up with a charset
mismatch between mintty and applications running in it.

Andy

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