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by **solaris90** » Wed, 02 Apr 2003 19:25:51

Hi

I connect to our remote RedHat 8 server using putty (via ssh) and I
get odd characters showing up in man pages eg:

XINETD(8)
XINETD(8)

NAME
xinetd a the extended Internet services daemon

Notice the a character. The putty settings are set to defaults. Does
anyone know how to get around this?

Thanks.

by **Chris Lowt** » Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:08:04

> Hi

> I connect to our remote RedHat 8 server using putty (via ssh) and I
> get odd characters showing up in man pages eg:

> XINETD(8)
> XINETD(8)

> NAME
> xinetd a the extended Internet services daemon

> Notice the a character. The putty settings are set to defaults. Does
> anyone know how to get around this?

> Thanks.

This is down to the fact that RedHat have enabled UTF-8 characters. Check
out the TERM variable setting, and remove the ".UTF-8" from it. So.. for
me, my TERM (as set up by the installer) is "en_GB.UTF-8". Setting TERM to
en_GB solves the problem.

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by **Bill Marcu** » Fri, 04 Apr 2003 04:00:34

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:08:04 +0100, Chris Lowth

>> Hi

>> I connect to our remote RedHat 8 server using putty (via ssh) and I
>> get odd characters showing up in man pages eg:

>> XINETD(8)
>> XINETD(8)

>> NAME
>> xinetd a the extended Internet services daemon

>> Notice the a character. The putty settings are set to defaults. Does
>> anyone know how to get around this?

>> Thanks.

> This is down to the fact that RedHat have enabled UTF-8 characters. Check
> out the TERM variable setting, and remove the ".UTF-8" from it. So.. for
> me, my TERM (as set up by the installer) is "en_GB.UTF-8". Setting TERM to
> en_GB solves the problem.

I think that would be LC_ALL or LANG, one of the locale variables.
TERM is usually set to "vt100" or "ansi" or some variation.

by **Chris Lowt** » Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:30:25

> On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:08:04 +0100, Chris Lowth

>>> Hi

>>> I connect to our remote RedHat 8 server using putty (via ssh) and I
>>> get odd characters showing up in man pages eg:

>>> XINETD(8)
>>> XINETD(8)

>>> NAME
>>> xinetd a the extended Internet services daemon

>>> Notice the a character. The putty settings are set to defaults. Does
>>> anyone know how to get around this?

>>> Thanks.

>> This is down to the fact that RedHat have enabled UTF-8 characters. Check
>> out the TERM variable setting, and remove the ".UTF-8" from it. So.. for
>> me, my TERM (as set up by the installer) is "en_GB.UTF-8". Setting TERM
>> to en_GB solves the problem.

> I think that would be LC_ALL or LANG, one of the locale variables.
> TERM is usually set to "vt100" or "ansi" or some variation.

My appologies - you are quite right. It's the "LANG" env var you need to be
looking at.

Chris
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Odd characters shown in putty session whilst connect to Linux

Odd characters shown in putty session whilst connect to Linux

Odd characters shown in putty session whilst connect to Linux

Odd characters shown in putty session whilst connect to Linux

Odd characters shown in putty session whilst connect to Linux