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Solved: Garbled text in Putty
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@shekharg
Putty is a popular and free Linux terminal/shell client for Windows. It allows one to connect to a Linux server using SSH (Secure Shell) or Telnet. I have been using it for as long as I can recall. But this issue of garbled text in Putty is what I have been ignoring, until yesterday.
Yesterday, I had setup Paradox database using DOSEMU on Linux, for a client. On Putty, the Paradox interface showed garbled making it unusable for the client. My instant suspect was DOSEMU. A quick check revealed that it’s happening with other apps too - those with a ncurses or text based user interface.For example: The garbled text, around the borders of UI elements, showed in ntsysv (as shown in the screenshots). ntsysv is a nifty console app, found in RedHat/CentOS/Fedora Linux, to start services during boot up.
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- Before – ntsysv showing garbled text in Putty
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- Putty settings to fix garbled text
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- After – ntsysv after the change in settings in Putty
The Solution
Launch Putty. On the Category pane (on the left), click on Windows>Translation. For the dropdown labeled “Received data assumed to be in which character set”, select UTF-8. To save this setting, click on Sessions (in the Category pane). On the right pane, select “Default Settings” and click on the button labeled Save. This is what worked for me with Putty version 0.60.
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