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Old 09-01-2010
How to paste Kanji Characters into a Unix File
Hi,

I am unable to copy Kanji characters into a unix file. They look like special characters when pasted into the Unix file. My objective is to copy these characters into a unix file and be able to print it and see the Kanji characters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying this out on a Windows XP Laptop. I am bringing up a Unix terminal window via Putty.

Thanks,
William H. Andruss Jr.
Last edited by andrussw; 09-01-2010 at 07:47 PM..
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Old 09-03-2010
For using Kanji characters, I believe that you would need to set PuTTY to UTF-8 first. Open a new PuTTY window, go to the Window -> Translation section and change the character set to UTF-8.
Additionally, you might want to check the 'Treat CJK ambiguous characters as wide' as I guess they are related to Kanji characters.

Try pasting now.

If it still does not work, I would suggest you resort to using unicode numbers themselves.

A little 'google' on this should help. Smilie
 
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