cygwin 1.7 - garbled character set?

Nellis, Kenneth - various problems resulting from version 1.7.1

cygwin garbled man pages (and other stuff)?
set LANG=C in your cygwin.bat

for example here's mine.

$ cat /Cygwin.bat

@echo off

set LANG=C

C:

chdir C:\cygwin\bin

rxvt -e bash --login -i