Why does YaST now show lines as lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?

Question

Today my YaST started rendering lines like this:

l and q instead of lines

It makes it difficult to read.. Any idea what this is about and how I can fix it? I tried rebooting, no dice.

Edit -- here's my PuTTY config:

PuTTY config page showing translation window

Character set is UTF-8

[grawity](http://superuser.com/questions/278286/) will tell you exactly what the problem is when you [edit] your question to tell the world what character encoding you've configured PuTTY to use. (-: — JdeBP, Mar 30 '14 at 19:50
i've edited the post to show my putty character encoding.. does that explain anything? — tmsimont, Apr 01 '14 at 22:47

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '15 at 12:51

26

Change "Terminal-type string" from "xterm" to "linux" in Connection>Data.

answered Aug 02 '15 at 12:51

Ahmad Harthi

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This answer needs more love! – tftd Mar 10 '16 at 13:56
I too prefer the putty answer - this terminal-type should be the default for every putty session – FelixJongleur42 Nov 04 '17 at 20:54
**This** should be the accepted answer. – Chupo_cro Jun 30 '21 at 01:24

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '14 at 17:56

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in bash, type: export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

answered Jun 25 '14 at 17:56

tmsimont

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Or, more likely, you want to add this to your `~/.bashrc` file so it happens automatically when you log in. – pzkpfw Dec 18 '18 at 08:24

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 11 '21 at 11:45

6

Permanent solution for your problem:

For one user:

cd ~
echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> .bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

The last line applies changes to the current terminal immediately.

For all users:

echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> /etc/bash.bashrc.local

edited Mar 11 '21 at 11:45

gronostaj

answered Dec 22 '14 at 23:41

David Krotil

3 Answers3