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Subject: Re: man pages showing special characters
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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 AT JIJOU
> =C2=A0 ~ $env | grep LANG
> =C2=A0 LANG=3Den_GB.UTF-8
>
> =C2=A0 19:59:25 Paul Bibbings AT JIJOU
> =C2=A0 ~ $env | grep LC_ALL
>
> =C2=A0 20:00:29 Paul Bibbings AT 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

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