gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm
Russ Lewis
webmaster@villagersonline.com
Wed Oct 11 02:20:00 GMT 2006
Brian Dessent wrote:
>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.
>>
>>
>
>That's UTF-8. It happens because somewhere in your rc files on the
>linux machine the locale gets set to en_US.UTF-8 (or some other
>variation that specifies UTF-8) but you are not using a terminal that
>can display unicode.
>
>The solution is simple:
>
>Use a terminal that supports unicode.
>
>OR
>
>Modify your rc files to not set a unicode locale, or otherwise modify
>the environment as appropriate. E.g. "export LC_ALL=C".
>
Thanks, guys.
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