Re: [CentOS] ncurses programs look messaed up

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:

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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

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When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 box the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 box all the pipes and dashes end up looking like

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Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?

Are you in an xterm (or other terminal emulator) or a regular console?

I use Putty.

I don't have a Windows box handy, but it appears that you want to go to the Translation panel and choose UTF-8 as your character set:

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-charse...