[SWLUG] Codepage problems with PuTTY

Glenn Booth d.glenn.booth at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 22:05:43 UTC 2005


Hi,

On 03/11/05, Terry John <terry.john at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

That worked fine, thanks. I had tried UTF-8 previously, but it didn't seem
to stick until I exited Putty and then started a new session.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Glenn.




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