Comments on: Getting Midnight Commander line drawing to work with PuTTY

By: randomperson

randomperson — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:50:33 +0000

On OpenSuSE 11.4 setting PuTTY to UTF-8 fixed MC but broke Yast and several others that used line drawing. The fix was to edit language settings and de-select UTF-8 encoding. On PuTTY leave translation set to ISO-8859-1. You have to close your session and reopen before it will take effect.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:28:14 +0000

You made my day Thanks a lot!

By: artige

artige — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:43 +0000

Try this code :
[code]
export TERM=xterm
[/code]
on your bash shell

By: Radek

Radek — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:45:59 +0000

It worked for me

By: Mark Huang

Mark Huang — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:08:35 +0000

Thanks! Also a problem for me for years. I use Windows host and connect to Ubuntu.

By: rechade

rechade — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:42:28 +0000

Firstly, thanks!

Next question, please, how do you get the function keys working???

By: wahyaohni

wahyaohni — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:18:47 +0000

omg thanks, I’ve been having this problem for years until I decided to fix it for the hell and this works like a charm. I think I’m going to stare to the clean MC windows for and hour blessed by how nice it is

By: Lukaz

Lukaz — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:26:27 +0000

Many thanks Tozzano, Your’s HOW-TO one works the best. No I have colors in Putty na mc draws nice lines

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:01:19 +0000

I didn’t think this was working for me but it turns out you need to apply the settings before opening the session. It won’t work if you choose the “Change Settings…” option in the terminal menu.
I’m using the new Consolas font in Windows 7 and it looks great

Thanks

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