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set putty
178 Chapter 2 Command Descriptions
characterset=host charset
The character set for data received from the host. During a session, the
terminal emulator receives a stream of 8-bit bytes from the server, and in
order to display them on the screen it needs to know the character set in
which to interpret these streams of bytes.
There are several character sets from which to choose. A few notable
character sets are:
• The ISO-8859 series are all standard character sets that include
various accented characters appropriate for different sets of
languages.
• The Win125x series are defined by Microsoft for similar purposes.
Win1252 is almost equivalent to ISO-8859-1, but contains a few
extra characters such as matched quotes and the Euro symbol.
• CP437 contains the old IBM PC character set with block graphics
and line-drawing characters. This is also used on MS-DOS systems.
• UTF-8 contains unicode data interpreted as being in the UTF-8
encoding. Not all server applications will support UTF-8.
The default is ISO-8859-1.