David Means wrote: > When I run 'man <command>', I get unprintable characters (see example below). > > Cygwin 1.7.1, using RXVT (not via X11). Exporting TERM to various > values (vt100, vt102, vt200, ansi, xterm) doesn't have an effect. > > Got any ideas?
rxvt is dumb when it comes to national languages (e.g. extended character sets). However, the default LANG setting in cygwin-1.7 is to use UTF-8 extended characters. To avoid them, export LANG=C.ASCII Or use a non-brain-dead terminal: xterm, rxvt-unicode, mintty... even cmd.exe does better than rxvt when it comes to extended characters. -- Chuck -- 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
