> -----Original Message----- > From: Durwin De La Rue > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 13:57 > Subject: man pages showing special characters > > I have searched the archive on this with complicated results. >
I have had this on and off for a while, at the moment using the latest of all, man bash and man rsync works for me. > First, I am using latest version of cygwin. I normally use > rxvt. But after having this issue with it, and finding > information that mintty does not have the issue, I started > using mintty. My first attempt to fix the issue in rxvt was > successful (export LANG=C). However, at some point it > failed. LANG is the same, but I again was getting special > characters where a hyphen (and quotes and other punctuation) > is suppose to be. That is when I started using mintty. It > worked right off no problems. However *now* it is doing the > same. I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf8 but > nothing is helping. > > Any suggestions? Here are my env vars from teraterm: !::='::\' !C:='C:\Program Files\teraterm' BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="49" [3]="23" [4]="release" [5]="i686-pc-cygwin") BASH_VERSION='3.2.49(23)-release' CLIENTNAME=Console COLUMNS=146 LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LINES=63 MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man PS1='\[\e]0;$title\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' SESSIONNAME=Console SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:moni tor SHLVL=1 TERM=vt100 And from start->run->bash.exe: !::='::\' BASH=/usr/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="49" [3]="23" [4]="release" [5]="i686-pc-cygwin") BASH_VERSION='3.2.49(23)-release' CLIENTNAME=Console IFS=$' \t\n' PS1='\s-\v\$ ' PS2='> ' PS4='+ ' SESSIONNAME=Console SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:moni tor SHLVL=1 > > Thank you, > > Durwin A closing thought, can one force all man pages to recompile???? Could old man pages compiled from before cause this issue? I have only noticed it after recently upgrading x or y. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. -- 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
