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Subject: Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:01:19 +0200
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On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:41:25 +0200, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy AT bopp DOT net> wrote:

> On 7/8/2010 4:22 PM, philippe wrote:
>> Jeremy Bopp a écrit :
>>> [...] However, if rxvt used to work for you under Cygwin 1.5, you  
>>> might be
>>> able to make it happy again by changing your LANG setting to LANG=C.
>>
>> No, i don't know where to modify this option LANG :-)
>
> LANG is an environment variable.  Under Cygwin 1.5, LANG=C was the
> default, but under Cygwin 1.7, LANG=C.UTF-8 is the default.  This change
> is probably why rxvt stopped working for you out of the box.

If you want to continue with rxvt and want to keep it as close
as possible to the old behavior set

export LANG=C.ISO-8859-1
export LC_TIME=C

in .profile

Works for me.  The LC_TIME is to keep ls -l produce the standard time
strings.

Michael


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