Hello, Thanks for your replay. Unfortunately it doesn't work :(
Could you check these screenshots? http://screencloud.net/v/jL6o http://screencloud.net/v/kp3E http://screencloud.net/v/1MR1 With and without the option you mentioned mc and other ncurses programs works fine but the dpkg-reconfigure is still just outputing pppppppp and qqqqqqqq rows. -- Best regards, Aleksander Kurczyk ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:39:09 +0100 > From: ronle...@tesco.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing > > On 01/04/2014 12:14, Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am using PuTTY, [...] >> >> I noticed that every frame in default Debian configuration in PuTTY >> is displayed as the rows of ppppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqq instead of >> those frame ASCII characters. PuTTY and every of my Debian >> installation is set to use Unicode UTF-8 encoded characters so >> ncurses etc. should use those characters to display frames instead >> of this vt100 escape code and ppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqq after it. PuTTY >> and KiTTY is expecting this and not those vt100 compatible >> characters. PuTTY/KiTTY can use those vt100 charasters without any >> problems but not in the Unicode mode. In this mode it expects >> normal UTF-8 characters. > > I use PuTTY to access a variety of *nix systems, and things seem to > differ a lot. I use mc, and the 'line drawing' around its panes > depends on using these settings, I've found: > > PuTTY, Window, Translation: > Character set: UTF8 > Handle line drawing: Use font in ANSI and OEM modes > > and in mc, on Debian Wheezy in this example: > Display bits, Input display, code page: UTF8 > > gives a 'perfect' mc appearance in the PuTTY window. > >> >> I can make ncurses applications use Unicode characters with the >> variable "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" set in my .bashrc. But not >> all applications uses ncurses. For example dpkg-reconfigure still >> uses those vt100 escape code and ppppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqqqq >> characters. How can i make it Unicode compatible? > > Oh, I didn't know there were these options. How do you know whether > an application is an ncurses application? Is mc such an application? > Maybe mc is ok because its codepage can be altered anyway, and maybe > your observation suggests that dpkg-reconfigure cannot be changed; I > see the problem, now. > > Have you tried altering the ANSI/OEM setting in PuTTY, anyway? > > regards, Ron > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/533ac17d.1010...@tesco.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/dub128-w5977634ae25255e640f3b7da...@phx.gbl
