[SOLVED] putty. mc, iftop and line draw characters

theking2 · 2015-02-01 12:41:10

I've setup putty to use translation utf-8. With this setting mc is displayed correctly but iftop is not. If I switch to translation iso-8859-1 it is reversed. iftop is display with the proper characters but mc is not.
On the archlinux box I have :

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

How could I have both iftop and mc work with the proper set?

Last edited by theking2 (2015-02-11 18:05:21)

olive · 2015-02-01 19:03:18

Putty is from Windows or Linux (putty is common on Windows but exists also in Linux)? I remember options to use Unicode or so for line drawing characters. Try to change that. What's the output of locale? Try LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 to see if that makes a difference.

Last edited by olive (2015-02-01 19:03:30)

theking2 · 2015-02-05 17:40:51

olive wrote:

Putty is from Windows or Linux (putty is common on Windows but exists also in Linux)? I remember options to use Unicode or so for line drawing characters. Try to change that. What's the output of locale? Try LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 to see if that makes a difference.

Thanks. I did a bit more searching and found this @ fedora https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =419660#38

Allegedly this problem was solved in http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ifto … 06ab023012
but hasn't made it to the archlinux binaries.

Is this something I should report somewhere?

theking2 · 2015-02-11 17:58:12

olive wrote:

Putty is from Windows or Linux (putty is common on Windows but exists also in Linux)? I remember options to use Unicode or so for line drawing characters. Try to change that. What's the output of locale? Try LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 to see if that makes a difference.

line drawing characters in putty (indeed on a Windows box) was switch on.

What I use as a work around is

export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 && iftop $@

Last edited by theking2 (2015-02-11 17:58:31)

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#1 2015-02-01 12:41:10

[SOLVED] putty. mc, iftop and line draw characters

#2 2015-02-01 19:03:18

Re: [SOLVED] putty. mc, iftop and line draw characters

#3 2015-02-05 17:40:51

Re: [SOLVED] putty. mc, iftop and line draw characters

#4 2015-02-11 17:58:12

Re: [SOLVED] putty. mc, iftop and line draw characters

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