[CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]

Christopher Chan christopher at ias.com.hk
Thu Dec 6 02:42:44 UTC 2007


Steven Haigh wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:06:25AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> Replying to myself with the fix... Setting PuTTY to use UTF-8 fixes the issue. This is
>>> done in the Window -> Translation section. The default is "ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)"
>>>
>>> Changing this to UTF-8 fixes all these display corruption issues.
>>>
>> :-O
>>
>> Surely you mean changing Centos to use C or en_US only!
>>
>> :-D
> 
> Nah. By default (at least on my installs!), CentOS will be set with
> 	declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> 
> This means that most other applications will probably work ok with UTF-8.
> 
> PuTTY however doesn't default to UTF-8, which causes weird display corruption
> when using screen. On a side note, the Mac OSX terminal isn't affected. It
> handles UTF-8 by default.
> 

Hahaha. I never thought about doing it the other way. But I will now.



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