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After moving to Windows 8, I can no longer directly input unicode characters into PuTTY session window. Like ą
, ę
, ć
, ń
using Alt+<letter>
with Polish (programmers)
keyboard layout.
I have
Window -> Translation -> Remote character set
set toUTF-8
.Typing directly using the physical keyboard connected to the server works.
And, what is strange, pasting a text with these letters into PuTTY works, too.
The server is using UTF-8. Here,
ąęółśćżźń
is being pasted:m@debian:~$ echo ąęółśćżźń > x ; file x x: UTF-8 Unicode text m@debian:~$
Pressing e.g.
Alt+x
, that normally rendersź
, in PuTTY window results in a normal latinz
. Here,żźżźżź
is being pasted:m@debian:~$ echo żźżźżź | md5sum 1ff31403a1089c590ed55d42cdcd0f3e - m@debian:~$
Here,
żźżźżź
is being typed:m@debian:~$ echo zzzzzz | md5sum cd519e63e450d863e5ee02814bae016d - m@debian:~$
And here, a plain
zzzzzz
is being typed:m@debian:~$ echo zzzzzz | md5sum cd519e63e450d863e5ee02814bae016d - m@debian:~$
Same sum.
The only letter with a diacritic that is typable is
ó
(which is also present in latin1 charset).This same exact executable does work on Windows 7.
My guess is that Windows 8 is somehow deciding that PuTTY is unable to process typed (?) non-latin1 characters and it changes them on-the-fly to their latin1 counterparts.
What can be done?