On 4/27/2010 10:45 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> When running a bash shell in rxvt and doing a man page I get weird >> characters in man pages especially around the often used "-" character. >> I've read about a few solutions, most revolving around UTF-8 and less >> and none of them fixing the problem totally. How do I set up rxvt such >> that man pages work? > > alias man='LANG=C.ISO-8859-1 /bin/man'
Better yet, use mintty instead of rxvt. Rxvt is abandoned anyway, and mintty is an excellent replacement with support for UTF-8 and much more. -Jeremy -- 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
