From: Jacob Nevins Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:13:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Docs: character sets are awful. X-Git-Tag: 0.68~229 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=8b4c43d6d23840b3d0d7266adc273bd001dedd22;p=PuTTY.git Docs: character sets are awful. --- diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 1fd38f43..0a05c2e2 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -319,8 +319,9 @@ If you find that special characters (\i{accented characters}, for example, or \i{line-drawing characters}) are not being displayed correctly in your PuTTY session, it may be that PuTTY is interpreting the characters sent by the server according to the wrong \e{character -set}. There are a lot of different character sets available, so it's -entirely possible for this to happen. +set}. There are a lot of different character sets available, and no +good way for PuTTY to know which to use, so it's entirely possible +for this to happen. If you click \q{Change Settings} and look at the \q{Translation} panel, you should see a large number of character sets which you can