gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Russ Lewis wrote:

> I ssh from my local Cygwin installation to a remote Linux box (Fedora Core 5 
> on AMD64). When I run gcc on the remote machine, certain parts of various 
> error messages show up strangely; things between single quotes show up as the 
> character â.
>
> However, when the terminal application is run from a Linux box, I get the 
> full error message. For instance, if I ssh from Cygwin to the remote machine, 
> then run a (remote) xterm (passed back to Cygwin through X forwarding), then 
> run make in that xterm, I get the normal error strings. Likewise, the error 
> strings show up if I run make locally on the Linux box. It also works when I 
> ssh from an ancient Linux box to my build machine (that is, when the xterm 
> application is running on an ancient Linux box).
>
> I finally tracked it down to the fact that gcc is ouputting three-byte 
> sequences for each single quote; apparently Cygwin is having trouble 
> displaying them.

That's UTF-8, which you can suppress by setting your locale (on the Linux 
box). Cygwin doesn't have the locale support needed for this.  Something
like this script (with-locale) can be useful, e.g.,

 	with-locale C program

#!/bin/sh
unset LANG
unset LC_ALL
unset LC_CTYPE
export LANG=$1
export LC_ALL=$1
shift
$*

You can of course modify the system configuration; however Fedora sets it 
in more than one place (there should be an FAQ on this somewhere).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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