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 the

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 fix

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.  My first

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 set in the

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

Re: man pages showing special characters

2010-04-08 Thread Paul Bibbings
Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com 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  

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 bash

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