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Subject: Re: Getting characters to display properly in Cygwin/RXVT/man pages
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:45:49 +0200
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>When running a bash shell in rxvt and doing a man page I get weird 
>characters in man pages especially around the often used "-" character. 
>I've read about a few solutions, most revolving around UTF-8 and less 
>and none of them fixing the problem totally. How do I set up rxvt such 
>that man pages work?

alias man='LANG=C.ISO-8859-1 /bin/man'

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