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I use PuTTY to connect to a CentOS server, and I sometimes need to enter Romanian characters from the keyboard. I use Windows 7 on the client computer; I have the server locale set up as en_US.UTF-8, and PuTTY is also configured for UTF-8.
I do NOT have any issues entering characters "î" and "ă" from the keyboard, and I also wouldn't have any problems entering the legacy cedilla characters "ş" (U+015F) and "ţ" (U+0163).
However, I can't enter the proper (comma) counterparts of the cedilla legacy characters "ș" (U+0219) and "ț" (U+021B). Whenever I try to use these two from the keyboard I get a question mark in the console. The issue is not related to the font I'm using in PuTTY, because I can copy/paste them (e.g. from this post), and I can generate them on the Linux host, e.g. by using
$ perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW}"'
I use Microsoft's stock keyboard settings for Romanian -- both "Romanian (Standard)" and "Romanian (Programmers)" produce the same results; "Romanian (Legacy)" works properly, but produces the legacy cedilla variants, which I'd rather not use.
How do I fix this?
Bogdan Stăncescu
Posted 2013-01-03T13:00:56.033
Reputation: 111
1Are you perhaps using screen? If so you also need to configure screen to use UTF-8 – None – 2013-01-03T13:03:58.330
Nope, just plain stock bash. – None – 2013-01-03T13:16:59.400
In my environment
LANG=en_US.UTF-8not LOCALE, but I don't know if that makes a difference for you. – mhitza – 2013-01-03T14:46:27.620Yep, same here, I just didn't want to list all output from
locale. – None – 2013-01-03T15:13:27.167