AK> On 11 September 2010 18:48, Ilya Basin wrote: >> AK> On Saturday, September 11, 2010, Ilya Basin wrote: >>>> Hi. My default LANG is C.UTF-8. If I change it to ru.UTF-8, all >>>> non-ascii characters in man pages are displayed as question marks. >> >> AK> ru.UTF-8 isn't a valid locale setting; you need a territory in there >> AK> as well, e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8, otherwise you end up in the ASCII-only C >> AK> locale. >> >> AK> Andy >> >> For some reason with the standard ru_RU.UTF-8 man pages are in English
AK> Hmm, something is quite wrong with that then. AK> We don't seem to have many man pages in Russian (or any other language AK> that isn't English) in the first place. Was it the vim pages you were AK> looking at? yes AK> Does inserting preconv as you mentioned previously help with ru_RU.UTF-8 too? No, as I told before, with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 man can't find man pages in Russian and displays them in English. AK> Andy I think there're at least 2 problems: - man incorrectly parses the LANG variable - man doesn't use preconv -- -- 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