X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=p1RAxxKEwlMA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=oSSyIPAFCbntUfAIJUYA:9 a=w2Om1ntZi4rVpcStyoBFQdXZvNoA:4 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=bSC-MnHvYjsA:10 Message-ID: <4C993FCA.4090103@charter.net> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:29:14 -0400 From: SJ Wright User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog. References: <4C949BEA DOT 2090508 AT charter DOT net> <20100918112910 DOT GH14602 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C9886F1 DOT 7010309 AT charter DOT net> In-Reply-To: <4C9886F1.7010309@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 SJ Wright wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 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 >> >> > Yes. I noticed where I had the territory mis-cased the next time I ran > wget. In the line that identified the file and URL for each download, > double-quotes and other punctuation became garbage characters, where > they hadn't been when I either had *no* LANG variable set or a > correctly-written one. So now it's fixed. Thanks again. > > SJ Wright Spoke too soon on the wget matter. Since setting a LANG variable in the first place (and evidently the right place, or else this wouldn't be a "matter"), I've been seeing garbage text -- I prefer to call it "drone text" -- in place of quotation marks during normal (non-verbose and not set to "quiet") downloads. Here's a sample: > Saving to: “gae77-7748-244-958stck.jpg” I just looked at the wget man page (which is, not remarkably, still free of drone text), and I notice there's a command that can be entered in .wgetrc that seems to sync LANG with the application's function. Or does it. I'm referring to the "local_encoding" command. It would make sense that if LANG gets changed, and an encoding-sensitive app such as wget is left "one step behind," so to speak, in that process, then there would be a command or configuration option to help it "catch up." This presumes I'm reading the man page right. I acknowledge it may have nothing to do with how wget displays the stages of the download process; I would rather know for sure that this is the case. In the meantime, I'll settle for running with the "-nv" option which may just give me clean text by some means or another. I'm thinking it won't, but that's four or five scrollback lines I'm saving at 80x36 at any rate. Just keeping everyone apprised. Steve W. -- 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