05-01-2013
PuTTY displaying "special" characters
I'm not really sure which forum this question should go into, so I'm posting it here.
I work with AIX and RHEL systems using PuTTY (Release 0.60_q1.129) from a Windows 7 workstation.
Some of the files we get from z/OS use "special" characters as delimiters. These characters include Hex 18 or Hex 19.
If I "cat" the files in the PuTTY terminal window, the characters are not displayed (on either AIX or RHEL.) However, if I open the files using UltraEdit sftp, I see the characters represented as an up-arrow for the x18 and a bar with a line for the x19. (If I copy and paste the text from the terminal window into UltraEdit, the delimiters are simply missing.)
I would like to be able to see the special characters in the terminal window itself so I can quickly see what the file has is delimited with. However, being a UNIX Dummy, I don't know if it's an issue with PuTTY's terminal settings, or an issue or limitation with the Linux/AIX box itself. I've tried changing font, terminal and character set settings that I could find in PuTTY's configuration, but haven't had any luck. I've Googled for a solution, and find a lot of stuff related to displaying Asian languages corretly, but nothing seems directly applicable to this situation.
Since I can open the file in UltraEdit to see the delimiters, I do have a viable work-around, so this isn't a huge issue for me, but it's annoying enough that I thought I'd ask and see if anyone has any suggestions.
(As a side note, I work in an environment where the desktop is very tightly controlled, so the particular version of PuTTY I'm using is my only option for terminal emulation. I can't install or try different software or versions to see if this issue is common to any terminal client or specific to PuTTY.)
Thanks!
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
ttytype
TTYTYPE(5) Linux Programmer's Manual TTYTYPE(5)
NAME
ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/ttytype file associates termcap(5)/terminfo(5) terminal type names with tty lines. Each line consists of a terminal type, fol-
lowed by whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the /dev/) prefix.
This association is used by the program tset(1) to set the environment variable TERM to the default terminal name for the user's current
tty.
This facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a UNIX minicomputer.
It is little used on modern workstation and personal UNIX systems.
FILES
/etc/ttytype
the tty definitions file.
EXAMPLE
A typical /etc/ttytype is:
con80x25 tty1
vt320 ttys0
SEE ALSO
termcap(5), terminfo(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)
Linux 2012-12-31 TTYTYPE(5)