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From: "GMANE" <werfling AT visionamics DOT com>
Subject:  Re: rxvt and strange characters from man
Date:  Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:41:28 -0500
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I also see this behavior.

It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" >> 
~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt.

Hopefully somebody will see us and help out.


"tim richardson" <tim AT tim-richardson DOT net> wrote in message 
news:loom DOT 20100104T115636-584 AT post DOT gmane DOT org...
> I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings.
> This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host.
>
> when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters.
> The default cygwin terminal works fine.
>
> for example, if I do
> man man
>
> I get this kind of stuff (the characters â (letter a with a hat on) pops 
> up a lot
>
> SYNOPSIS
>       man  [−acdfFhkKtwW]
>
>
>
>
> 



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