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#1 2008-10-09 19:05:14
- phrakture
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muttng and putty drawing characters
So, this has been bugging me for a time and I can't ever figure out the exact reason this happens.
When I use putty to connect to a remote server (with TERM set to xterm-256color) and load up muttng, I get drawing characters that look like this
Note the 'x's should be vertical lines and the 'mq' should be horizontal lines... but nope.
I've tried messing with the fonts to no avail. Putty is set to UTF-8 mode with unicode line drawing chars, and my locale is UTF-8 enabled.
This does *not* happen to be a problem with 'mc' (which uses slang for drawing) however, so I don't think it's a drawing issue in general. I expect it's ncurses only...
Any ideas?
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#2 2008-10-09 19:49:59
- phrakture
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Re: muttng and putty drawing characters
Hmmm interestingly enough, this seems to be caused by setting putty to utf-8 mode. If I switch putty back to latin1, I get appropriate drawing characters.
Anyone know why that is?
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#3 2008-10-09 20:10:31
- Dusty
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Re: muttng and putty drawing characters
It means you've been hacked.
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#4 2008-10-10 07:41:31
- robmaloy
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Re: muttng and putty drawing characters
tried using different terminal emulation modes? (default is vt102 iirc)
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