On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:57:14AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>I have an impression that Slackware 10 introduced UTF-8 locales. > >>That's the first thing I'd check. > >> > >How would one check this and, if it's the cause, fix it? > > If your environment on the other end is a UTF-8 locale, then some of the > selections will use a UTF-8 string. I don't know offhand if the Cygwin/X > server supports that, but the clients don't since Cygwin doesn't support > UTF-8 locales. > > If that's the case, setting your locale to en_GB.ISO-8859-1, etc., should > make it workable (since Cygwin supports Latin-1). That's normally set in > some system file (but I don't offhand know, since mostly I've been using > startx/fvwm). > OK, thanks very much, two things to check tonight when I get home.
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