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.