how to get extended ASCII graphic characters from Fedora to a SSH session.

I log into Fedora (text-based only) from Windows 98 using SSH Secure
Shell (version 3.2.9). I've tried various terminal answerback
settings in SSH, including ANSI, VT100, VT330. Yet, when I run
something that has ASCII graphic characters I get a messed up screen
with foreign characters replacing lines and borders. Anyone know how
to configure SSH to display extended ASCII graphics properly? I am
running the Fedora firewall with eth0 and SSH allowed--everything else
by default.
Thanks.

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:08:27 GMT, Phisherman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I log into Fedora (text-based only) from Windows 98 using SSH Secure
>Shell (version 3.2.9). I've tried various terminal answerback
>settings in SSH, including ANSI, VT100, VT330. Yet, when I run
>something that has ASCII graphic characters I get a messed up screen
>with foreign characters replacing lines and borders. Anyone know how
>to configure SSH to display extended ASCII graphics properly?

There /really/ aren't such things as "extended ASCII graphics", you know. The
characterset you /think/ is ASCII is really some other characterset, like CP850
or ISO 8859-1. Take a look at "man ascii" for some details, or even at
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps/ for a list of charactersets and their
differences. You'll be amazed at what is "missing" from
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps/US-ASCII

First off, you'll have to find out what graphic characterset the server app
uses, then you'll have to tell your ssh client what graphic characterset to
interpret the datastream as.

Neither of this actions are 'generic'. Without knowing the details of both the
client and the server app, we cannot advise you on which characterset to use or
how to configure the apps to use it.

>I am
>running the Fedora firewall with eth0 and SSH allowed--everything else
>by default.
>Thanks.

--
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Enterprise Technology Solutions
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')

Phisherman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I log into Fedora (text-based only) from Windows 98 using SSH Secure
> Shell (version 3.2.9). I've tried various terminal answerback
> settings in SSH, including ANSI, VT100, VT330. Yet, when I run
> something that has ASCII graphic characters I get a messed up screen
> with foreign characters replacing lines and borders.

I suggest you make sure the font that you SSH client is displaying in
has support for line drawing characters. Have a look with the Character Map
utility.

Also, make sure you're not setting TERM to anything. Or, you may be able
to get away with saying TERM=ansi myprog, but that's a bit of a rude
hack.

--
Cameron Kerr
(E-Mail Removed) : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/
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