> Durwin De La Rue: > > I have searched the archive on this with complicated results. > > > > First, I am using latest version of cygwin. Â I normally use rxvt. Â But > > after > > having this issue with it, and finding information that mintty does not have > > the issue, I started using mintty. Â My first attempt to fix the issue in > > rxvt was successful (export LANG=C). Â However, at some point it failed. > > Â LANG is the same, but I again was getting special characters where a > > hyphen > > (and quotes and other punctuation) Â is suppose to be. Â That is when I > > started using mintty. Â It worked right off no problems. Â However *now* it > > is > > doing the same. Â I have tried setting LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.utf8 but > > nothing is helping. > > What character set is selected on the Text page of mintty's options? > Where are you setting LANG and LC_ALL?
mintty is set to en_US.UTF-8 I only exported LANG=c in .bash_profile. All my other tests were on commandline. > > I'd recommend setting the locale and character set in the mintty > options only, which automatically sets LANG accordingly. If you set > LC_ALL or LANG to something else in your shell startup files, then > mintty won't get to know about it, and you end up with a charset > mismatch between mintty and applications running in it. > I removed the export from .bash_profile and re-logged in and still recieve same scrambled characters. Durwin -- 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
