man pages with weird characters

[Tim Prince]

The man pages have been behaving well for me with 
cygwin 1.1.0 on W2K.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  bob 
  To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:38 
  PM
  Subject: Re: man pages with weird 
  characters
  Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I 
  was starting to think of upside-down exclaimation 
  points as standard punctuation for word breaks. Or 
  maybe I just spend too much time staring at MAN pages! >--- David O'Shea < david@ems.uq.edu.au > wrote: >-8<- >> >>     The solution I found was 
  to edit /lib/man.conf and change the >> lines: >> >> NROFF    
              /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 
  -mandoc >> NEQN            
      /usr/bin/eqn -Tlatin1 >> >> to: >> >> NROFF            
      /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc >> NEQN    
              /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii >> >>     This stops grotty from 
  trying to use a special dash character >> (0xAD); it will 
  just use a standard ASCII minus sign as found on >>your >> keyboard. >> >>     This fixed the problem for 
  me at least - I don't know if others >> experience this 
  problem (maybe they do and can just ignore it!), >>but >> hopefully someone 
  else will find this useful.  If this is standard >> behaviour on all 
  Windows boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this >>by >> default? >> > >Yes, and thanks for the 
  fix. > >Cheers, > >===== >--- >  Earnie Boyd: 
  < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> ; >      __Cygwin: POSIX on 
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