On 3/25/2010 1:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote: > > I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the > font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However, > when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will > render fonts properly. I get a lot of gobbeldy-gook in rxvt. For example, > > When I do a make and get an error, the bash shell shows … > > ‘)’ > > While the rxvt window shows > > ‘)†> > Can anybody help me set up the rxvt terminal to display fonts like the normal > cygwin bash terminal?
This issue has already been covered an number of times in the past couple months, so you should probably search the mail archives for solutions and details. What I remember offhand is that the default character encoding in Cygwin is now UTF8. This encoding is not supported by rxvt though, so you'll see messes like this for any multibyte characters. While you could change your LANG setting to specify a character encoding which is compatible with rxvt, a better option IMO is to switch to mintty, which supports UTF8 and other character encodings. The rxvt package has apparently been abandoned for a long time, even upstream, so it will never be fixed and will eventually wither away. Mintty, on the other hand, is quite actively supported, easy to use, and extremely solid in my experience. -Jeremy -- 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
