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Why don't ANSI symbols work in PuTTY/Debian?

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Mar 15, 20267167 views
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The awesome application , which I installed in Debian with , has the option of drawing its output using ANSI graphics. Its output looks like this now: This is obviously wrong. These are my and env variables. PuTTY is set to expect UTF-8 as well. If I change PuTTY to "Use font encoding" then looks r…

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Fix for: Why don't ANSI symbols work in PuTTY/Debian?

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The first problem is that you have $LC_ALL set to . If you set $LC_ALL, it will override all other locale settings, including $LANG. Since the "C" locale uses ISO-8859-1, will not know about Unicode availability and will attempt to switch to the VT1…

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