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Re: rxvt and strange characters from man
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:23:32 +0000
- Subject: Re: rxvt and strange characters from man
- References: <loom.20100104T115636-584@post.gmane.org>
2010/1/4 tim richardson:
> I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings.
> This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host.
>
> when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters.
> The default cygwin terminal works fine.
>
> for example, if I do
> man man
>
> I get this kind of stuff (the characters à (letter a with a hat on) pops up a lot
>
> SYNOPSIS
> Â Â Â man Â[ÃËâacdfFhkKtwW]
That's because the default locale in Cygwin is C.UTF-8 and rxvt does
not (and will not) support UTF-8.
You've got two choices:
- Change your locale to one with a singlebyte character set, e.g.
en_US.ISO-8859-1.
- Use a different terminal: urxvt or xterm if you want to run X, or
mintty if you don't.
Andy
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