Character encoding setting saved in config doesn't stick

[Steve Romanow]

Binary package hint: putty

I have a session saved to use with my console based ERP app. I need to use CP437 encoding for the graphics to render correctly.

I use putty .60 on win32 and ubuntu 9.04. I have the dev snapshot installed so I can get gtk2 version.

When I choose CP437 encoding ans save the session, it saves to the .putty/sessions/Prelude file, but when I connect, it is overridden somehow and is set back to "Use Font Encoding". Basically, I have to reset it every time I log in.

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

Here is more info:

sudo dpkg -s putty
Package: putty
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 744
Maintainer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.60+2009-04-05-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.3), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libx11-6, putty-tools
Description: Telnet/SSH client for X
 This is the Unix port of the popular Windows ssh client, PuTTY. It supports
 flexible terminal setup, mid-session reconfiguration using Ctrl-rightclick,
 multiple X11 authentication protocols, and various other interesting things
 not provided by ssh in an xterm.

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

With the attached debugging output, I did the following in sequence:

 - open putty
 - choose Prelude session
 - log in to aix box via ssh
 - right click and choose Change Settings
 - Choose Translation
 - change remote character set from "Use Font Encoding" to CP437.
 - choose Session, prelude, Save, Apply
 - quit putty

~/steve/.putty/sessions/Prelude does contain a line: LineCodePage=CP437

Maybe this is a problem on parsing the config on startup instead of a config saving problem?

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

That path above is actually ~/.putty/sessions/Prelude

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

This is a known bug upstream, and is believed fix as of svn r8592.

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

Jacob, tyvm. I see this is marked as Fix Committed. Does that mean 9.10 has been bumped to the newer upstream? Wondering when I can sync up.

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

It's only marked as "Fix Committed" in "PuTTY" (i.e. upstream). I don't believe the Ubuntu package (i.e., "putty (Ubuntu)") has picked up the fix yet.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'll try to get the package updated again for Karmic - I want to get the client-side font performance improvements too.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Hi Steve,

This looks like an old bug, what kind of connection type does your ERP app use: serial/telnet ?
is this still a problem with putty 0.62-6 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ?

Thanks!