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Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage


sun wrote:

> hi, just find a export line in my .bashrc file
> 
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> when I delete it, the man pages return  to normal.
> but I do not know why.

Setting that variable tells programs that you want UTF-8 output, however
you're not using a terminal capable of displaying UTF-8 and so the
characters display as nonsense.

Brian

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