On 11/20/2012 11:30 PM, David Champion wrote:
* On 20 Nov 2012, Linda wrote:
I am dialing in to an ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine that has mutt with
hyperterminal on windows 7. When it displays the index some of the subjects
are garbage characters instead of the subject. I tried set charset=UTF8 and
set charset=ISO-8859-1 but neither solves the problem. Does anyone have a
suggestion on how to get this to work?
I don't use Windows much, but I seem to recall noting that
HyperTerminal's terminal emulation is very bad. I wish I had facts
rather than anecdote at hand. But, not meaning to be glib, I'd suggest
trying Putty or Tera Term instead. Both support serial connections (in
addition to ssh and telnet) and I know that I've used them with success,
though I've forgotten details.
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.62/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-serial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Term
Thanks to David and Matthias I now have this working. First
I used David's links to figure out how to do putty. Once I
realized all I needed was choose serial and type atdt phone
number to dial the number and make the connection It worked
perfectly. Then I used Matthias hint of the LANG variable I
ran echo $LANG to find out the value and choose it under the
translate options to set it. Thank you so much for pointing
me in the right direction.
Linda
