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.



8 comments:

Anonymous said...

It works. Thanks.

Unknown said...

Wow, this worked!

謝謝~

jzhou002 said...

Nice job, thanks.

Anonymous said...

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 ?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

falu said...

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

Unknown said...

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