Quotes changed to odd characters in gcc error msgs

[Ken Brown]

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On 1/13/2016 11:28 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From Ken Brown
> On 1/13/2016 10:05 AM, Chuck Roberts wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am running Cygwin 2.3.0 on Windows 7. I'm new to Cygwin and trying
>> to learn C programming (basic ANSI C).
>>
>> I'm having 2 problems.
>>
>> 1) When I get an error message from the gcc compiler, the quotes in
>> the message are turned to high ascii characters that don't make sense.
>> How do I fix this? My TERM variable says "cygwin".
>
> These are probably Unicode curly quotes.  They should display properly if
> you use one of the standard Cygwin terminals (such as mintty or xterm).
>
> Ken
>
> Got it! I did this then added these commands to my .bashrc:
> export TERM=mintty
> export LANG=en_US

Bad idea.  mintty sets TERM to the appropriate value (which happens to 
be xterm).  And you probably want LANG to be en_US.UTF-8; but you don't 
have to set it yourself.  It's done by the script 
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh, which is run by /etc/profile.

Ken


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