ncurses programs look messaed up

[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>> 
>> >  When using things like links, centericq, or ntsysv on my fedora core 2 
>> >  box the fonts in ncurses based programs look fine, but on my centos4.2 
>> >  box all the pipes and dashes end up looking like
>> > 
>> >  ??????????????????
>> > 
>> >  Does anyone know how to fix this problem ?
>>
>>  Are you in an xterm (or other terminal emulator) or a regular console?
>
> I use Putty.

I don't have a Windows box handy, but it appears that you want to go 
to the Translation panel and choose UTF-8 as your character set:

   http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-charset

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