5/25/07

putty, utf8 and chinese

I often have to edit utf8 encoded files that contain Chinese, on remote linux machine, through putty. To edit and display Chinese correctly, I have to configure putty and my environment setting on the remote host.


First putty:open putty configuration Window -> appearance -> font settints->change... select NSimSun (新宋体)
Window -> Translation -> Character set ... select UTF-8


Save configuration to a session.
Next we setting up remote host:
put this in ~/.bashrc
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Re-"source" bashrc.

Issue a "locale" and make sure LC_CTYPE is set correctly. If not do a "locale -a" and see what's available.
In Fedora or CentOS, just do a "yum install glibc-common" to install glibc-common to get all locales.
In Ubuntu, edit file /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and add this line:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
Then do a "dpkg-reconfigure locales".

That's it. Now we can edit UTF8 encoded Chinese file without problem.



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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/04/2010 01:16:00 AM

    It works. Thanks.

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  2. Unknown12/17/2010 09:39:00 AM

    Wow, this worked!

    謝謝~

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  3. jzhou0024/01/2011 12:13:00 PM

    Nice job, thanks.

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  4. Anonymous5/05/2011 07:13:00 AM

    I am not able to find the 'NSimSun' font in the list that we get when we are in change font settings...
    Can you help me here ?

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  5. Anonymous8/30/2011 02:16:00 PM

    I have Translation set to UTF-8, don't have NSimSun, here is my .bash_profile

    # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
    umask 002
    PS1='[\h]$ '
    unset MAILCHECK
    export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
    export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
    export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF-8

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  6. Anonymous11/23/2011 09:55:00 PM

    env settings already used UTF8. only changed the putty characterset; not the font. thanks

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  7. falu2/20/2012 01:37:00 PM

    You must have chinese keyboard because putty gets the character sets from the keyboard settings.

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