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 recently encountered this problem myself, and I did some more research. Here's another solution. Try it and see if it works any better for you. In Putty configuration, make the following changes: Window -> Translation -> Remote character set : UTF-8 Window -> Translation -> Handling of line-drawing characters: Use Unicode line-drawing code points Connection -> Data -> Terminal type string : putty With these settings, you don't need the environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 set. (By the way, /etc/profile.d/local.sh is a better place to put this, if you're going to use it. This makes a system-wide change. But with the PuTTY settings above, you don't need it. I am unable to reproduce the problem you are having with dpkg-reconfigure. Perhaps you would be so good as to give the name of a specific package that you are trying to reconfigure in which you have the problem. I tried reconfiguring locales, and the box-drawing characters seemed to be working just fine. -- .''`. 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/1775270931.1019967.1398732618731.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
