Strange characters on gcc output

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Tue Nov 1 21:14:32 UTC 2005


On di, 2005-11-01 at 11:13 -0800, Jeff wrote:
> I'm using PuTTY to connect to my ubuntu 5.10 (breezy) box and when I
> compile I get characters in the output, almost like its supposed to be
> colored.
> 
> Like this, adds an â around the error
> mc.c:3442: error: âwordâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> Anyone know how to turn this off or fix it?

GCC uses unicode quotes, so set a unicode locale and make PuTTY
understand it :)
-- 
Dennis K.
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