[TriLUG] Midnight Commander through PuTTY

[Jeff Groves]

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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