On Sep 18 07:00, SJ Wright wrote: > Having recently by accident trashed my home folder, and having had > to rebuild from one saved from a much older install (1.7.0 or even > earlier), I noticed my man pages were again displaying with garbage > text in between the readable text -- nonprintable characters, > Unicode litter and the like. I remembered Corinna Vinschen had > posted something quite a while back in a topic thread that dealt > with this issue; I am sure it made it into the archives for this > list, but I wasn't able to find it. I vaguely recalled one detail > had something to do with setting one's environment variable to C > instead of C.utf_8 or even en_us.utf8.
Ouch. Wrong on both accounts. Either "C.UTF-8, or "C.utf-8", or "C.utf8", or "en_US.UTF-8" or "en_US.utf-8" or "en_US.utf8". Dash yes, underscore no. The territory must be written in uppercase. The User's Guide might be a good start: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
