Subj : Which Charset in PuTTY ?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Schraalhans Keukenmeester
Date : Thu Dec 30 2004 10:08 am

I have a SSH connection to my Linux (SuSE9.2) box for administration.
Standard PuTTY uses ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe) as character 
set. This works fine for almost all output on the console, even the 
linechars display correctly. Just all the -- used in for instance 
manpages will display as a with ^ on top (â). If I type a - myself it 
displays correctly though.

I tried a few other charsets in PuTTy, closest was UTF-8, but then the 
linechars are a mess again.

Any idea  how I can
a) find which charset my linux box uses for terminal output ?
b) how I can match the charset if none of the PuTTY ones fully match the 
  one SuSE uses ? (or can I best try changing the charset on the linux 
box  instead ?)

TIA
Schraalhans

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