FW: special font characters in rxvt

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 3/25/2010 2:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote:
>
> I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of
> the font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold.
> However, when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting
> that will render fonts properly. I get a lot of gobbeldy-gook in rxvt.
> For example,
> When I do a make and get an error, the bash shell shows …
>
> ‘)’
>
> While the rxvt window shows
>
> ‘)â€
>
> Can anybody help me set up the rxvt terminal to display fonts like the
> normal cygwin bash terminal?

Is it any better if you use mintty instead of poor old decrepit rxvt?

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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