Introduction
This is a series of musings on Cygwin customizations.
xterm, UTF-8, & U+2010 "hyphen"
With the release of Cygwin-1.7, many must have come across man
pages with strange or missing characters.
For example, while xterm supports UTF-8, hyphens appear as
boxes with Lucida Console.
And with rxvt, â^’ is sprinkled liberally
in man pages.
Since the problem with Lucida Console and many other Windows fonts is
caused by the missing glyph at U+2010, you can overcome it by using
the Consolas font, a fixed pitch font for tty usage.
For example, your .Xdefaults may contain the following for nice xterm output:
xterm*vt100*background: black
xterm*vt100*foreground: green
xterm*vt100*faceName: Consolas
xterm*vt100*faceSize: 18
Last updated on 5 Feb 2010
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