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Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY

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Mar 15, 202627287 views
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Problem

I'm having trouble setting up PuTTY with Ubuntu. I'm trying to get line characters to work in aptitude as well as 256-color support, but can only get one or the other. Ubuntu Config Using 64-bit Ubuntu Terminal type xterm-256color or putty-256color gives 256-color, but incorrect line characters. Te…

Error Output

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
L…

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Fix for: Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY

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The problem is that PuTTY in UTF-8 mode ignores1 VT100 "Alternate character set" commands, and ncurses attempts to use the "graphical" character set for drawing the GUI. (The box drawing characters are in the same positions as would normally be.) to…

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