Hello Wilfred.

11 Mar 24 09:26, you wrote to me:

 WvV>>>> And starting golded in a local Konsole terminal "TERM=xterm"
 WvV>>>> with the default charset set to utf-8:

 WvV>>>> # sudo -u fido LANG=en_EN.CP850 luit -encoding 'CP850'
 WvV>>>> /usr/local/bin/golded -f

 VA>>> If you use luit - than having xterm in UTF-8 is correct.

 WvV> This one also works with putty (which is set to use utf-8 as charset).

Yep. I've tried luit in my configuration and it works totally fine.

 WvV>>>> And in the same kind of terminal but with the default charset
 WvV>>>> set to cp850, this one works:

 WvV>>>> # sudo -u fido LANG=en_US.CP850 /usr/local/bin/golded -f

 VA>>> This is correct commandline to if you have your terminal in
 VA>>> cp850. Just choose what works better for you. Probably luit and
 VA>>> terminal in UTF-8 is most convenient.

 WvV>> I'll see after I have tested with putty...

 WvV> I'll probably switch to this setup since it also works with putty.

It's definitely more convenient.

 WvV>>>> I will still have to test these in a putty terminal later
 WvV>>>> during the coming week.

 VA>>> Putty will work fine. Only I suggest you to change terminal type
 VA>>> in putty from xterm (they use if by default)

 WvV>> I think it's set to 'linux' in putty.

 WvV> Switching from 'linux' to 'putty' makes things worse:

 WvV> https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/8a290fabf761

That may be because terminfo for putty doesn't exist on your system. You may need to install additional packages. I have putty-256color and it works perfect.

How to check.
Run infocmp -D
This will show you which directories are used to find terminfo.
Then search in those directories, is putty available. If not - you may need install package like ncurses-term. May have different name on your system.

Let me know it that helped please.

 WvV> Also some keys, like the F3 key stopped working. So I keep my
 WvV> terminal
 WvV> type as 'linux'.

 VA>>> to putty or putty-256color. It's in Connection->Data section.

 WvV> 'putty-256color' makes no difference.

putty-256color just add more colors support. F keys are broken most probably because terminfo is missing.

Vitaliy

... 640K ought to be enough for anybody
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