[TriLUG] Midnight Commander through PuTTY

[tomed at barq.itsco.com]

I have also run into this issue various times, the famous A with a hat,
when dealing with unicode/latin translations.

Tom Ed

At Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:23:32 -0400,
Jeff Groves wrote:
> 
> I don't know whether it's because I just upgraded to PuTTy 0.58 that was 
> just announced today, but I just installed and ran mc from my FC2 
> machine and the lines look great.
> 
> In my putty config, I have the following under the "Window | 
> Translation" section:
> 
> "Received data assumed to be in which character set:" ISO-8859-1:1998 
> (Latin-1, West Europe) and "Adjust how PuTTY handles line drawing 
> characters" "Handling of line drawing characters:" "Use Unicode line 
> drawing code points"
> 
> There are quite a few other settings that might also influence this, so 
> your mileage may vary.
> 
> Jeff G.
> 
> Dave Cowan wrote:
> 
> > I use PuTTY to access my fedora server here at home from my WinXP 
> > machine and it works great. I was playing around with Midnight 
> > Commander this evening for the first time using PuTTY and all the line 
> > characters on the screen are displayed as "a" with a circumflex. My 
> > Google search was not very successful in finding a solution (however, 
> > I was pleased to see that someone else was looking for a solution to 
> > the same problem...so if I am an idiot and doing something wrong...at 
> > least I am not a lone idiot)
> >
> > I tried various configuration changes in PuTTY; various character set 
> > translations and how putty handles line drawing characters but nothing 
> > seemed to work.
> >
> > Have any of you experienced this or have any ideas how I can correct 
> > this problem?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> 
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