Thank you, Jeremy. BTW, I deal with legacy machines that don't know from SSH. :-(
Well this gets more interesting, at least to me... With LANG=UTF-8, man uses the Unicode HYPHEN character (U+2010) to break long words at the right margin, and uses the Unicode MINUS character (U+2212) to prefix command line options (e.g., ls -l). The Windows Command Prompt window, used by Cygwin.bat, doesn't display U+2010 correctly with the Lucida Console font, but it works correctly with the default FixedSys font. Mintty, OTOH, doesn't display U+2212 correctly with the default FixedSys font, but does with the Lucida Console font. So, if I can tolerate the ugly FixedSys font, then I can use Cygwin.bat and the Windows FTP and Telnet tools without (anticipated) problems. (I wonder if the Mintty developer would want to update Mintty to support U+2212.) --Ken Nellis -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Bopp [mailto:jer...@bopp.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 14:49 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: various problems resulting from version 1.7.1 On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because > LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, > which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and > installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine until I tried to > use FTP or Telnet (the Windows versions). The mintty man page pro- > vides a reason why it might not work with certain interactive pro- > grams (see "LIMITATIONS"), which I presume includes these two > programs. > > In lieu of going back to LANG=C and cygwin.bat, wondering if there > is a recommended configuration that doesn't have these problems. You could use Cygwin-based Telnet and FTP programs under Mintty. I'm personally fond of ncftp for FTP, and while I prefer to use SSH these days, the telnet program included in the inetutils package always worked for me back in the day. In general I try to avoid using Windows-native software under Cygwin whenever a Cygwin-based alternative is available. It's just easier that way for me. :-) -Jeremy
