Putty problem with characters - SSH

Hi all,

Let me start by introducing myself.
My name is Wilbert Smeets, 28 years old, Netherlands.
Today I've leased a server, logged into it to start setting up websites
and found that my Putty doesn't display chars like 'ë' correctly.
I was hoping that someone here might be able to tell me what is causing
this. I know it's not exactly security-related, but hopefully someone
can and is willing to help me out.

Cheers,

Wilbert

Wilbert Smeets writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Let me start by introducing myself.
> My name is Wilbert Smeets, 28 years old, Netherlands.
> Today I've leased a server, logged into it to start setting up
> websites and found that my Putty doesn't display chars like 'ë'

If that's an e with two dots above it, I'm in putty as I type seeing
it correctly.

Under Windows;Translation settings, I'm using what I believe is the
default charset of ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)

My TERM setting is screen, but I imagine a linux term works just as
well. I'm not sure what other settings come into play, but I can at
least give you hope that it's a configuration issue and not a putty
capability issue.

I'm assuming you're using a relatively recent putty as well.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Ah, I happened to use the same ISO, I have changed it now to UTF-8 and
the problem is solved!

Thanks a lot!

Wilbert


Todd H. wrote:
> Wilbert Smeets writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Let me start by introducing myself.
>> My name is Wilbert Smeets, 28 years old, Netherlands.
>> Today I've leased a server, logged into it to start setting up
>> websites and found that my Putty doesn't display chars like 'ë'
>
> If that's an e with two dots above it, I'm in putty as I type seeing
> it correctly.
>
> Under Windows;Translation settings, I'm using what I believe is the
> default charset of ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)
>
> My TERM setting is screen, but I imagine a linux term works just as
> well. I'm not sure what other settings come into play, but I can at
> least give you hope that it's a configuration issue and not a putty
> capability issue.
>
> I'm assuming you're using a relatively recent putty as well.
>
> Best Regards,