> From: Jeenu V > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 02:48 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 > > I'm now using UTF-8 encoding on PuTTYCyg and the man pages look fine. > Could > somebody tell me how to search for '-' on the man page, so that I can > quickly jump to a known command option? > > -- > :J
The problem is how to enter the Unicode MINUS sign, which man is using for the option prefix. The code point for this character (in decimal) is 8722, so press ALT and from the NUM-LOCKed keypad enter 8 7 2 2, then press Enter. --Ken Nellis
