X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:29:10 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog. Message-ID: <20100918112910.GH14602@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C949BEA DOT 2090508 AT charter DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C949BEA.2090508@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sep 18 07:00, SJ Wright wrote: > Having recently by accident trashed my home folder, and having had > to rebuild from one saved from a much older install (1.7.0 or even > earlier), I noticed my man pages were again displaying with garbage > text in between the readable text -- nonprintable characters, > Unicode litter and the like. I remembered Corinna Vinschen had > posted something quite a while back in a topic thread that dealt > with this issue; I am sure it made it into the archives for this > list, but I wasn't able to find it. I vaguely recalled one detail > had something to do with setting one's environment variable to C > instead of C.utf_8 or even en_us.utf8. Ouch. Wrong on both accounts. Either "C.UTF-8, or "C.utf-8", or "C.utf8", or "en_US.UTF-8" or "en_US.utf-8" or "en_US.utf8". Dash yes, underscore no. The territory must be written in uppercase. The User's Guide might be a good start: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple