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Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage
sun wrote:
> hi, just find a export line in my .bashrc file
>
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> when I delete it, the man pages return to normal.
> but I do not know why.
Setting that variable tells programs that you want UTF-8 output, however
you're not using a terminal capable of displaying UTF-8 and so the
characters display as nonsense.
Brian
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