Ubuntu weird characters in PuTTY

[Scott R Ehrlich]

Quoting Peter Davis <pfd-BsdhSnS8rnmgSpxsJD1C4w at public.gmane.org>:

> On 7/16/07, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like Ubuntu is detecting a TERM that it thinks can do VT100
>> bold/under, but PuTTY isn't doing it.
>
>
> I tried
>
> export TERM=linux
>
> and
>
> export TERM=xterm

Try:

export TERM=vt100

>
> Neither of these has completely resolved the problem.
>
> There seem to be three weirdnesses with my current setup:
>
> 1) mutt tries to truncate lines at 80 columns, but some lines are wrapping
> anyway, suggesting that mutt doesn't know how many characters wide some
> single characters are, and
>
> 2) since mutt (curses?) only repaints the portions of the screen it things
> need repainting, some garbage gets left behind as I move from message to
> message, etc., and
>
> 3) display of some messages resets the title bar of the PuTTY window to
> garbage.
>
> Any clues would be welcome.
>
> Thanks!
> -pd
>
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