rxvt, ssh and utf8

[Brian Dessent]

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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