RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing
Hello,
Thanks for your replay,
I always use Consolas because it is very similar to the Monaco Mac font which i just love :) The missing chars are sometimes displayed as an empty box but it is not a problem for me.
I have tried the dpkg-reconfigure locales and console-setup. The second package was not installed so I installed it and configured but it is still not working properly with some software. Mc, irssi, tmux and other works fine but dpkg-reconfgure displays pppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqqqq.
I have also tried other options in PuTTY but it always display the pppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqqqq rows.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Kurczyk
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> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:23:32 -0400
> From: zlinuxman@wowway.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian and Unicode line drawing
>
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:14:24 -0400 (EDT), Aleksander Kurczyk wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using PuTTY, Maybe it's not a new software but it works properly
>> with other distributions (CentOS/Fedora etc.) that uses Unicode by
>> default.
>>
>> I noticed that every frame in default Debian configuration in PuTTY
>> is displayed as the rows of ppppppppppppp and qqqqqqqqqq instead of
>> those frame ASCII characters. PuTTY and every of my Debian
>> installation is set to use Unicode UTF-8 encoded characters so ncurses
>> etc. should use those characters to display frames instead of this
>> vt100 escape code and ppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqq after it.
>> PuTTY and KiTTY is expecting this and not those vt100 compatible
>> characters. PuTTY/KiTTY can use those vt100 charasters without any
>> problems but not in the Unicode mode. In this mode it expects
>> normal UTF-8 characters.
>>
>> I can make ncurses applications use Unicode characters with the
>> variable "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" set in my .bashrc.
>> But not all applications uses ncurses. For example dpkg-reconfigure
>> still uses those vt100 escape code and ppppppppppp/qqqqqqqqqqqqq
>> characters. How can i make it Unicode compatible?
>
> I'm not sure if I can help or not, but here's what I do know.
> On the Debian side, use
>
> dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> and
>
> dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
>
> Make sure the default locale is UTF-8. (For example, en_US.UTF-8.)
> Make sure UTF-8 is selected as the character mapping in console-setup.
> Then shutdown and reboot.
>
> On the PuTTY side, make sure that PuTTY is expecting UTF-8 characters.
> In the PuTTY configuration dialog, select
>
> Window -> Translation
>
> Then, in the drop-down box under "Remote character set", select UTF-8.
> Also, make sure that the "Use Unicode line drawing code points" radio
> button is selected on the same screen.
>
> Assuming that you are running PuTTY under Windows, many Windows fonts
> are incomplete. Most of the fixed-width fonts are missing some of the
> characters that are used in manual pages. As a result, a hollow box
> will appear in their place. On my Windows machine at work, the only
> installed font that I could find that would display a hyphen correctly
> is Consolas. An internet post I read also suggested DejaVu Sans Mono,
> but I couldn't try it because it is not installed in my machine.
> In PuTTY configuration, select
>
> Window -> Appearance
>
> Then change the font. Experiment with different fonts. Display a
> man page that has hyphens, such as
>
> man fstab
>
> and see which fonts display a hyphen and which display a box. Go
> with one which displays the hyphen correctly. Maybe this will help
> your other problems.
>
> --
> .''`. Stephen Powell
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