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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=
 have
> > the issue, I started using mintty. =C2=A0My first attempt to fix the is=
sue in
> > rxvt was successful (export LANG=3DC). =C2=A0However, at some point it =
failed.
> > =C2=A0LANG is the same, but I again was getting special characters wher=
e a hyphen
> > (and quotes and other punctuation) =C2=A0is suppose to be. =C2=A0That i=
s when I
> > started using mintty. =C2=A0It worked right off no problems. =C2=A0Howe=
ver *now* it is
> > doing the same. =C2=A0I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf=
8 but
> > nothing is helping.
>=20
> What character set is selected on the Text page of mintty's options?
> Where are you setting LANG and LC_ALL?

mintty is set to en_US.UTF-8

I only exported LANG=3Dc in .bash_profile.  All my other tests were on
commandline.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
I removed the export from .bash_profile and re-logged in and still
recieve same scrambled characters.

Durwin


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