Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-10 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 April 2010 21:56, Paul Bibbings: >> What font are you using, and what do you get instead of the '-'? > > Well, certainly the font affects the problem.  I had this set to > `Courier'.  However, changing this to `Courier New' solves this for me > and everything renders as I would expect.  For th

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread Paul Bibbings
Andy Koppe writes: > Paul Bibbings: >> FWIW, I am experiencing exactly the same problems as the OP.  I have >> mintty set up to use (under Options): >> >>   Locale       : en_GB >>   Character set: UTF-8 >> >> which matches... >> >>   19:59:13 Paul bibbi...@jijou >>   ~ $env | grep LANG >>   LANG

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread Andy Koppe
Paul Bibbings: > FWIW, I am experiencing exactly the same problems as the OP.  I have > mintty set up to use (under Options): > >   Locale       : en_GB >   Character set: UTF-8 > > which matches... > >   19:59:13 Paul bibbi...@jijou >   ~ $env | grep LANG >   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > >   19:59:25 Paul b

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread Andy Koppe
TheCajun: >> 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 s

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread TheCajun
> Durwin De La Rue: > > I have searched the archive on this with complicated results. > > > > 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. Â

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread Andy Koppe
Durwin De La Rue: > I have searched the archive on this with complicated results. > > 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

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-07 Thread David Arnstein
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:57:02AM -0600, Durwin De La Rue wrote: > 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 i

RE: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -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