X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,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: <874ojlaciz.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4BBCC76E.5070901@nmia.com> <20100408070651.07BB.E57E4DAE@nmia.com> <878w8xah30.fsf@gmail.com> <874ojlaciz.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:46:09 +0100 Received: by 10.239.193.80 with SMTP id h16mr114031hbi.151.1270892770031; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:46:10 -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 On 8 April 2010 21:56, Paul Bibbings: >> What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'? > > Well, certainly the font affects the problem. =C2=A0I had this set to > `Courier'. =C2=A0However, changing this to `Courier New' solves this for = me > and everything renders as I would expect. =C2=A0For the record, using > `Courier', I was getting a wide, solid vertical bar for al the `-'s. The font *is* the problem then. Well, apart from man/groff needlessly using the Unicode minus and hyphen codepoints anyway. 'Courier' isn't a Unicode font, i.e. it covers CP1252 and perhaps a few other codepages, but nothing beyond that. Other examples of fonts like that are Fixedsys and Terminal. OpenType and TrueType fonts (marked with 'O' and 'TT' in the font dialog) tend to have wider coverage, for example Lucida Console, Consolas, DejaVu Mono, and Courier New. > I had believed that I had set it to `Courier New' in the first place, so > unless it should render properly under Courier, this is my error. Easy enough to click on 'Courier' instead of 'Courier New'. I checked that mintty isn't accidentally dropping the 'New'. 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