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From: "Wayne Erfling" <werfling AT visionamics DOT com>
Subject:  Re: rxvt and strange characters from man
Date:  Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:34:51 -0500
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Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile 
instead of .bashrc

LANG=en_US; export LANG


"GMANE" <werfling AT visionamics DOT com> wrote in message 
news:hi52s7$f1n$1 AT ger DOT gmane DOT org...
>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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