Hello, Thanks for your replay,
I always use Consolas because it is very similar to the Monaco Mac font which i just love :) The missing chars are sometimes displayed as an empty box but it is not a problem for me. I have tried the dpkg-reconfigure locales and console-setup. The second package was not installed so I installed it and configured but it is still not working properly with some software. Mc, irssi, tmux and other works fine but dpkg-reconfgure displays pppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqqqq. I have also tried other options in PuTTY but it always display the pppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqqqq rows. -- Best regards, Aleksander Kurczyk ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:23:32 -0400 > From: zlinux...@wowway.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing > > On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:14:24 -0400 (EDT), Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am using PuTTY, Maybe it's not a new software but it works properly >> with other distributions (CentOS/Fedora etc.) that uses Unicode by >> default. >> >> I noticed that every frame in default Debian configuration in PuTTY >> is displayed as the rows of ppppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqq instead of >> those frame ASCII characters. PuTTY and every of my Debian >> installation is set to use Unicode UTF-8 encoded characters so ncurses >> etc. should use those characters to display frames instead of this >> vt100 escape code and ppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqq after it. >> PuTTY and KiTTY is expecting this and not those vt100 compatible >> characters. PuTTY/KiTTY can use those vt100 charasters without any >> problems but not in the Unicode mode. In this mode it expects >> normal UTF-8 characters. >> >> I can make ncurses applications use Unicode characters with the >> variable "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" set in my .bashrc. >> But not all applications uses ncurses. For example dpkg-reconfigure >> still uses those vt100 escape code and ppppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqqqq >> characters. How can i make it Unicode compatible? > > I'm not sure if I can help or not, but here's what I do know. > On the Debian side, use > > dpkg-reconfigure locales > > and > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > Make sure the default locale is UTF-8. (For example, en_US.UTF-8.) > Make sure UTF-8 is selected as the character mapping in console-setup. > Then shutdown and reboot. > > On the PuTTY side, make sure that PuTTY is expecting UTF-8 characters. > In the PuTTY configuration dialog, select > > Window -> Translation > > Then, in the drop-down box under "Remote character set", select UTF-8. > Also, make sure that the "Use Unicode line drawing code points" radio > button is selected on the same screen. > > Assuming that you are running PuTTY under Windows, many Windows fonts > are incomplete. Most of the fixed-width fonts are missing some of the > characters that are used in manual pages. As a result, a hollow box > will appear in their place. On my Windows machine at work, the only > installed font that I could find that would display a hyphen correctly > is Consolas. An internet post I read also suggested DejaVu Sans Mono, > but I couldn't try it because it is not installed in my machine. > In PuTTY configuration, select > > Window -> Appearance > > Then change the font. Experiment with different fonts. Display a > man page that has hyphens, such as > > man fstab > > and see which fonts display a hyphen and which display a box. Go > with one which displays the hyphen correctly. Maybe this will help > your other problems. > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/1846658799.613507.1396401812008.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/dub128-w5461809af4811f76ea9bf5da...@phx.gbl
