the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread sun
my cygwin man pages are mixed with error characters (such as �c). this is the result of 'man ls', please help to locate the problem. --- LS(1)User Commands

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 7/31/07, sun wrote: my cygwin man pages are mixed with error characters (such as �c). this is the result of 'man ls', please help to locate the problem. --- LS(1)User

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread Morgan gangwere
On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:57 PM, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 7/31/07, sun wrote: my cygwin man pages are mixed with error characters (such as 鈭 鈭抍). this is the result of 'man ls', please help to locate the problem. -

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread sun
that is what I want to do, how to set everything to english? sun this happens on some machines with that option -- mostly with asian language stuff but ALWAYS with japanese text encodings and korean... had that happen at my school for a long time -- eventually we set everything to english and

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread Carlo Florendo
sun wrote: that is what I want to do, how to set everything to english? sun Could you expound a little bit more? Thank you very much. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, Diliman 1101, Quezon City

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread sun
hi, just find a export line in my .bashrc file export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 when I delete it, the man pages return to normal. but I do not know why. On 8/1/07, Carlo Florendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you expound a little bit more? Thank you very much. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread Carlo Florendo
sun wrote: hi, just find a export line in my .bashrc file export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 In .bashrc? Then that means it's not cygwin's fault. Cygwin does not write that out in .bashrc so it looks like either you did it or some application did it for you. Thank you very much. Best Regards,

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Dessent
sun wrote: hi, just find a export line in my .bashrc file export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 when I delete it, the man pages return to normal. but I do not know why. Setting that variable tells programs that you want UTF-8 output, however you're not using a terminal capable of displaying UTF-8 and

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

2007-07-31 Thread sun
yes, I think it is me to change that. That induce the display problems. Thank you all. sun On 8/1/07, Carlo Florendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In .bashrc? Then that means it's not cygwin's fault. Cygwin does not write that out in .bashrc so it looks like either you did it or some application