[colug-432] Conflict btwn Screen and Putty

[Chris Wallace]

switch your Putty settings to UTF-8 perhaps, instead of ISO-whatever

-chris


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have an odd conflict between screen (the terminal multiplexer) and
> Putty, and this is something I've never seen before.
>
> The environment is RedHat 5.8.  It's worth noting that when I was using
> CentOS 5.x on a daily basis, I used Putty and screen all the time without
> encountering this problem.
>
> Normally, when you login via putty with bash as your shell, you can hit
> the up-arrow for the last command.  This sends the ascii code for ESC, then
> [A, and it goes across to bash (or whatever other program) just fine.  When
> you try this via screen, it looks like the terminal manager in screen takes
> "the ascii code for ESC, then [A" and turns it into the actual character
> string ^[[A, which is Caret + [ + [  + A.
>
> I was always able to sort out these kinds of issues on my own systems by
> setting TERM=xterm and the Putty terminal emulation to xterm.  That doesn't
> work in this case.  Where should I start looking for possible solutions to
> this problem?
>
> Thanks!
> -JK
>
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