Durwin De La Rue: > I have searched the archive on this with complicated results. > > First, I am using latest version of cygwin. I normally use rxvt. But after > having this issue with it, and finding information that mintty does not have > the issue, I started using mintty. My first attempt to fix the issue in > rxvt was successful (export LANG=C). However, at some point it failed. > LANG is the same, but I again was getting special characters where a hyphen > (and quotes and other punctuation) is suppose to be. That is when I > started using mintty. It worked right off no problems. However *now* it is > doing the same. I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf8 but > nothing is helping.
What character set is selected on the Text page of mintty's options? Where are you setting LANG and LC_ALL? I'd recommend setting the locale and character set in the mintty options only, which automatically sets LANG accordingly. If you set LC_ALL or LANG to something else in your shell startup files, then mintty won't get to know about it, and you end up with a charset mismatch between mintty and applications running in it. 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
