Thanks John, but that's exactly what my setup is. I use either Linux or xterm with the alternate keyboard emulation unchecked. I'm always using the White/Black color scheme with Lucida Console font. There's also a check box for 'Use Unicode graphics characters' which is checked. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 5/1/2014 11:07 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > So my question is: why is that? Why would the default setting not work? > Is > > it actually something that I need to be doing on the server (like > changing > > the LANG setting), or is it with SecureCRT? And if so, can anyone give me > > any suggestions of what I need to be looking for and change? > > you need to configure SecureCRT to do UTF, its probably using a ISO8559 > type 8 bit encoding. this combination of settings works for me... > > on the terminal->emulation, set Terminal to either Linux or Xterm, and > uncheck alternate keyboard emulation. > on the terminal->appearance, set a font that has unicode, like Lucida > Console, or Consolas. do NOT use the vt100 family fonts. > > now log out, and log back into the target system, and I bet 'tree' works. > > re: those who say to use putty, while putty is free, SecureCRT has a > lot of worthwhile features, I've been using it for years. > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >