FW: special font characters in rxvt

[Nellis, Kenneth]

> From: Jeremy Bopp
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 14:40
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: FW: special font characters in rxvt
> 
<snip/>
> 
> While you could change your LANG setting to specify a character
> encoding
> which is compatible with rxvt, a better option IMO is to switch to
> mintty, which supports UTF8 and other character encodings.  The rxvt
> package has apparently been abandoned for a long time, even upstream,
> so
> it will never be fixed and will eventually wither away.  Mintty, on the
> other hand, is quite actively supported, easy to use, and extremely
> solid in my experience.
> 
> -Jeremy

If rxvt use is to be discouraged, maybe it should be deemphasized 
in the User's Guide under Console Programs:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-console

--Ken Nellis