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 â (letter a with a hat on) pops up a > lot > > SYNOPSIS > man [−acdfFhkKtwW]
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 -- 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