On 12/25/2009 10:58 PM, Wes S wrote:
Below is excerpt from man file on touch. Highlighted text is showing strange characters when I use putty to ssh in. It was working fine before the 1.7 upgrade.How do I fix this? Thanks, Wes âd, ââdate=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time âf (ignored) âm change only the modification time âr, ââreference=FILE use this fileâs times instead of current time ât STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time ââtime=WORD change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivâ alent to âa WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to âm ââhelp display this help and exit
Those look like "international" characters to me, i.e., UTF or some such. man (actually, the formatting tool behind it) likes to generate these for hyphens. In the past, we had LANG=C and it had no choice; now with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 or LANG=C.UTF-8 it generates them. While it is somewhat brain-damaged to do so, I found the "fix" to be to set LANG=C .... YMMV -- Eliot Moss -- 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
