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Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
Andy Koppe a Ãcrit :
> On 9 July 2010 00:01 lemkemch wrote:
>> If you want to continue with rxvt and want to keep it as close
>> as possible to the old behavior set
>>
>> export LANG=C.ISO-8859-1
>> export LC_TIME=C
>>
>> in .profile
this change modify only output display.
>
> Setting LANG in .profile is too late for bash itself, because that
> will continue to operate in C.UTF-8. That will cause trouble when
> entering non-ASCII characters on the command line, for example, try
> typing an à or Ã.
that's exactly what appends.
>
> Therefore you need to set it before bash is invoked, for example in
> cygwin.bat if that's where you're invoking rxvt from.
adding
export LANG=C.ISO-8859-1
export LC_TIME=C
in Cygwin.bat has no effect.
Philippe
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