Why does YaST now show lines as lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?

Question

Today my YaST started rendering lines like this:

It makes it difficult to read.. Any idea what this is about and how I can fix it? I tried rebooting, no dice.

Edit -- here's my PuTTY config:

Character set is UTF-8

Solution 1

in bash, type: export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

Solution 2

Change "Terminal-type string" from "xterm" to "linux" in Connection>Data.

Solution 3

Permanent solution for your problem:

For one user:

cd ~
echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> .bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

The last line applies changes to the current terminal immediately.

For all users:

echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> /etc/bash.bashrc.local

Comments

[JdeBP]

grawity will tell you exactly what the problem is when you edit your question to tell the world what character encoding you've configured PuTTY to use. (-:

[tmsimont]

i've edited the post to show my putty character encoding.. does that explain anything?

[tftd]

This answer needs more love!

[FelixJongleur42]

I too prefer the putty answer - this terminal-type should be the default for every putty session

[pzkpfw]

Or, more likely, you want to add this to your ~/.bashrc file so it happens automatically when you log in.

[Chupo_cro]

This should be the accepted answer.