X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <878w8xah30.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4BBCC76E.5070901@nmia.com> <20100408070651.07BB.E57E4DAE@nmia.com> <878w8xah30.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:48:24 +0100 Received: by 10.239.188.135 with SMTP id p7mr60490hbh.90.1270756104601; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: man pages showing special characters From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Paul Bibbings: > FWIW, I am experiencing exactly the same problems as the OP. =C2=A0I have > mintty set up to use (under Options): > > =C2=A0 Locale =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 : en_GB > =C2=A0 Character set: UTF-8 > > which matches... > > =C2=A0 19:59:13 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU > =C2=A0 ~ $env | grep LANG > =C2=A0 LANG=3Den_GB.UTF-8 > > =C2=A0 19:59:25 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU > =C2=A0 ~ $env | grep LC_ALL > > =C2=A0 20:00:29 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU > =C2=A0 ~ $env | grep LC_TYPE > > and all man pages - or all the ones that I have checked, which are many > - are certainly unable to render `-' at least. What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'? 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