Re: gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

["Russ Lewis" <webmaster at villagersonline dot com>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Russ Lewis wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I ssh from my local Cygwin installation to a remote Linux box (Fedora
> > Core 5 on AMD64). When I run gcc on the remote machine, certain parts of
> > various error messages show up strangely; things between single quotes
> > show up as the character â.
> >    
>
> That's UTF-8.  It happens because somewhere in your rc files on the
> linux machine the locale gets set to en_US.UTF-8 (or some other
> variation that specifies UTF-8) but you are not using a terminal that
> can display unicode.
>
> The solution is simple:
>
> Use a terminal that supports unicode.
>
> OR
>
> Modify your rc files to not set a unicode locale, or otherwise modify
> the environment as appropriate.  E.g. "export LC_ALL=C".
Thanks, guys.

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