rxvt and strange characters from man

[Wayne Erfling]

Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile 
instead of .bashrc

LANG=en_US; export LANG


"GMANE" <werfling@visionamics.com> wrote in message 
news:hi52s7$f1n$1@ger.gmane.org...
>I also see this behavior.
>
> It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" 
>  >> ~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt.
>
> Hopefully somebody will see us and help out.
>
>
> "tim richardson" <tim@tim-richardson.net> wrote in message 
> news:loom.20100104T115636-584@post.gmane.org...
>> I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings.
>> This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host.
>>
>> when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control 
>> characters.
>> The default cygwin terminal works fine.
>>
>> for example, if I do
>> man man
>>
>> I get this kind of stuff (the characters â (letter a with a hat on) pops 
>> up a lot
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>       man  [−acdfFhkKtwW]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> 



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