Straight to the point: as I needed a terminal to connect to my Solaris box down there, I decided to go for PuTTY. In this laptop I'm running Windows Vista (I'm not joking...) and I didn't want to install Cygwin for such a basic task.
PuTTY doesn't even intall: you just download it and run it. Fine! As soon as I connect, the first surprise.
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
and PuTTY is simply misunderstanding it. Well, to say the truth it isn't even trying to understand it. When you launch PuTTY you're presented a dialogue. In that dialogue, if you choose the Window/Translation tab, you'll the able to choose the character encoding PuTTY will be using during the translation process of the received data. Just set it to match your other endpoint encoding like this:
Et voilà! PuTTY is printing characters correctly:
Just a remark for the PuTTY guys: Windows/Translation doesn't seem such a good option name, to me, for a character encoding.
12 comments:
Thanks for that useful tip. I was getting used to guess what was behind the wrong characters :-P
Cheers
You're welcome, glad it helped!
Thank you, very useful tip.
Thank you! Really quick tip and very usefull =)
Thank you!
Thank you. Easy and right!
thank's but maybe somebody knows how to change encoding permanently? I use your method and any time I restart putty have to do it again....
@wirtualne,
In order to make these changes permanent in Putty, you open up Putty, make the changes you want to save, then click back on the Session window, click on the "Default Settings" under Saved Sessions, and then click on Save. Next time you open Putty whatever you changed prior to clicking save will still be in effect.
August 2009 tip still is relevant
Thanks ! You've made my sad life a bit less sad ! Thank you my favorite solaris addict !
Great tip!
Note: you may still get blocks for certain characters because the default fonts like Courier and Lucida Console don't have all unicode chars. Download and install http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download
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