From 3ee4eedaec9cad4b5b2ff0f40567fa2e57a942a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jacob Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 23:46:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs for change to UTF-8 by default, and emphasise UTF-8 more generally. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@9846 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/config.but | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/config.but b/doc/config.but index 6d812482..467ea289 100644 --- a/doc/config.but +++ b/doc/config.but @@ -1254,12 +1254,16 @@ mechanism for PuTTY and the server to communicate this information, so it must usually be manually configured. There are a lot of character sets to choose from. The \q{Remote -character set} option lets you select one. By default PuTTY will -attempt to choose a character set that is right for your \i{locale} as -reported by Windows; if it gets it wrong, you can select a different -one using this control. +character set} option lets you select one. -A few notable character sets are: +By default PuTTY will use the \i{UTF-8} encoding of \i{Unicode}, which +can represent pretty much any character; data coming from the server +is interpreted as UTF-8, and keystrokes are sent UTF-8 encoded. This +is what most modern distributions of Linux will expect by default. +However, if this is wrong for your server, you can select a different +character set using this control. + +A few other notable character sets are: \b The \i{ISO-8859} series are all standard character sets that include various accented characters appropriate for different sets of @@ -1273,12 +1277,6 @@ Euro symbol. \b If you want the old IBM PC character set with block graphics and line-drawing characters, you can select \q{\i{CP437}}. -\b PuTTY also supports \i{Unicode} mode, in which the data coming from -the server is interpreted as being in the \i{UTF-8} encoding of Unicode, -and keystrokes are sent UTF-8 encoded. If you select \q{UTF-8} as a -character set you can use this mode. Not all server-side applications -will support it. - If you need support for a numeric \i{code page} which is not listed in the drop-down list, such as code page 866, then you can try entering its name manually (\c{\i{CP866}} for example) in the list box. If the -- 2.11.0