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Re: rxvt, ssh and utf8
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:19:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: rxvt, ssh and utf8
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <40C09A9B.5060707@athensgroup.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
James Garrison wrote:
> So, DOES the rxvt in Cygwin support UTF8? If yes, how do I
> enable it (There's nothing in the man page).
Well I don't know about Unicode box/line drawing characters but I've
always found that applications that expect to use the line drawing
characters (such as mc) only work if you set TERM to "rxvt-cygwin"
instead of the default "rxvt".
I do find it a bit frustrating that I can't just use "rxvt-cygwin" as my
default term, because apparently its terminfo isn't fully fleshed out or
something. Programs like 'less' complain of a "not fully functional"
terminal and don't work right if I do that. So I just alias mc to
"TERM=rxvt-cygwin mc", which is not a very pretty solution. I'd love to
know why one or the other terminal setting can't just work for
everything.
Brian
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