Ubuntu
putty package

Character encoding setting saved in config doesn't stick

Bug #381288 reported by Steve Romanow on 2009-05-28

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	PuTTY	Fix Committed	Undecided	Unassigned
	putty (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

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.

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) wrote on 2009-05-28:

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.

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) wrote on 2009-06-15:

strace.out Edit (1.0 MiB, text/plain)

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?

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) wrote on 2009-06-15:

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

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Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp) wrote on 2009-06-15:

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

Changed in putty:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) wrote on 2009-06-15:

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.

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Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp) wrote on 2009-06-15:

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.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2009-07-17:

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

Changed in putty (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2012-07-30:

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!