Getting characters to display properly in Cygwin/RXVT/man pages
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Tue Apr 27 15:52:00 GMT 2010
On 27.04.2010 17:45, 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'
>
Additional options:
* Update groff (with setup.exe) for a man page fix.
* alias rxvt="LANG=C /bin/rxvt"
* alias rxvt=urxvt
* alias rxvt=mintty
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