[SWLUG] Codepage problems with PuTTY

[Terry John]

On Putty

Go to Change Settings/Window/Translation

If you look at the drop-down "Received data assumed to be character
set". It will probably say ISO-8859:1998(Latin-1,West Europe)

Try changing it to UTF-8.

Alternatively you code change you default codepage on your server but
I'm not sure how to do that, besides UTF-8 seems to be the flavour of
the future.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at swlug.org.uk [mailto:discuss-bounces at swlug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of Glenn Booth
Sent: 02 November 2005 21:07
To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
Subject: [SWLUG] Codepage problems with PuTTY


Hi,

I've been running SSH to my Ubuntu boxes a lot recently, often using
PuTTY 0.58 as the SSH client on an XP box. All works fine, except for
some problems getting certain ASCII characters rendered correctly.

Put simply, I'm not sure how to get Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10 to tell me
which character sets they use, in particular over SSH. Can anyone help?

If I thought the rogue characters would survive a trip through gmail's
text processing I'd paste some in, but the chances are slim to none
:-) The clue is whichever character man version 2.4.2 uses as a
seperator when it wraps a word over two lines - I'm seeing a string of
three high ASCII characters instead of a hypen. Tried various character
page translations in PuTTY with differing but still wrong results. It
also happens in vim when typing shift-3 - I get high ascii rubbish.

Any pointers thankefully received!

Ta,

Glenn.

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