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Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?

by VMG 13y ago

gcb0 13y ago
It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.
- VMG 13y ago
  Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
  - eli 13y ago
    You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.
    - foolfoolz 13y ago
      if you are a putty user, do this. its very time consuming to set up putty especially colors but its easy to keep all your settings in a reg file.
    - e12e 13y ago
      The last time I used windows a bit (I think it was around the Planetside 2 launch...), I noted down this: # set up for putty: # From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-settings-with-a-single-command/ http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment: reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg reg import putty.reg I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).
  - voltagex_ 13y ago
    The fork I'm just about to patch is FuTTY - https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY which includes save-settings-to-file. The screen resizing behaviour (as a result of Screen's +flow command) might drive you crazy though.
- bwblabs 13y ago
  PuTTY beta 0.63 defaults to UTF-8 encoding and 2000 lines of scrollback (rather than ISO 8859-1 and 200).
Mindless2112 13y ago
UTF-8 is the default as of v0.63 [1]. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...

Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?

by VMG 13y ago

Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?

gcb0 13y ago

It's two clicks after you install putty. select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default. done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default. I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.

VMG 13y ago
Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time. There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.
- eli 13y ago
  You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.
  - foolfoolz 13y ago
    if you are a putty user, do this. its very time consuming to set up putty especially colors but its easy to keep all your settings in a reg file.
  - e12e 13y ago
    The last time I used windows a bit (I think it was around the Planetside 2 launch...), I noted down this: # set up for putty: # From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-settings-with-a-single-command/ http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment: reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg reg import putty.reg I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).
- voltagex_ 13y ago
  The fork I'm just about to patch is FuTTY - https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY which includes save-settings-to-file. The screen resizing behaviour (as a result of Screen's +flow command) might drive you crazy though.
bwblabs 13y ago
PuTTY beta 0.63 defaults to UTF-8 encoding and 2000 lines of scrollback (rather than ISO 8859-1 and 200).

Mindless2112 13y ago

UTF-8 is the default as of v0.63 [1]. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...