> From: Jeremy Bopp > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 14:40 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: FW: special font characters in rxvt > <snip/> > > 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
If rxvt use is to be discouraged, maybe it should be deemphasized in the User's Guide under Console Programs: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-console --Ken Nellis
