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RE: FW: special font characters in rxvt
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:50:54 -0500
- Subject: RE: FW: special font characters in rxvt
- References: <4BABAE0A.7090903@bopp.net>
> 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