Re: PuTTY charsets (was: Web frontend?)
On Friday, May 5, 2006 at 20:19:32 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Damn you Alain. You would ask for details and probably have me
> demonstrate that it's just a PEBKAC. :)
Could look promising, but I'm never happy before I can shout
an humiliating « RTFM! ». ;-)
> the thread tree isn't displayed correctly
The precise way it fails may help pointing to the cause. Could you
please describe the non-correctness?
> In putty's Translation settings, I've tried Latin-1 (the default),
> Latin-9, UTF-8, and Use font encoding settings.
ACS should work in all those charsets (better avoid the unsure "Use
font encoding"), with just a specificity in the way it's done in UTF-8.
Specificity that should *normally* be transparent to the user though...
> I'm not sure which [fonts], if any, include the proper glyphs to do
> the line drawing.
Most if not all, AFAICS. "Lucida Console 1.60" for sure. The default
"Courier New" also.
OK: ACS should just work, out of the box, in mostly default
settings. Let's checklist a working setup and what can have an
influence:
PuTTY full defaults but the auto-exported TERM:
· Font "Courier New", default.
· Translation "ISO-8859-1", default.
· "Use Unicode line drawing code points", default.
· Connection -> Data -> Terminal-type string: "putty".
Accessing the home machine:
· printf "\033(B\033)0\016tnu\017" gives TV-antenna-like lines?
· Ncurses version and date (tic -V)?
· TERM=putty?
· export LANG=en_US, everything else not set.
In Mutt verify:
· :set ?charset ==> iso-8859-1
· :set ?ascii_chars ahum, sorry ;-)
If it works, then do the same with translation "UTF-8", and
LANG=en_US.UTF-8. Verify $charset took "utf-8" automagically. Do
printf "\xE2\x94\x9C\xE2\x94\xBC\xE2\x94\xA4" for the TV antenna.
Optionally upgrade to latest Ncurses and use TERM=putty-256color
Bye! Alain.
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