Sunday, 8 September 2019

putty and ugly ncurses border

ncurses borders always appear nicely when logging in from any Linux system, however a lot of our customer is using putty on windows. When loading ncurses application like YasT, ncurses border usually appear as characters (l, q, k, x, m and j) and the nice ncurses will looks ugly. 

The fixed is actually quite simple, in putty configuration make sure you check "Enable VT100 line drawing even in UTF-8 mode"


Reconnect your ssh session and your ncurses border will be beautiful again. 

Cheers!!!


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