[COLUG] UTF-8 Goobers-up Screen

[Drew]

> Howdy All,
> 
> I'm using a remote Screen session from Putty on a Windows box.  I use it 
> to read mail in Pine, as well as browse the web in eLinks.
> 
> Whenever I encounter UTF-8 characters (with accent marks), the Screen gets 
> goobered up and, for example, scrolls up by a few lines.  (This is fun in 
> Pine, as I won't know which message I'm looking at or deleting.)
> 
> Without using Screen, everything works OK.  Since I thought it might be a 
> terminal setting, I checked; when I just use pine, TERM is set to XTerm. 
> So, I ran screen and set the terminal type to XTerm, and get the same 
> results.
Try checking the .screenrc or if you don't have one for your login for 
your user /etc/screenrc for the global one.  Rather than using xterm you 
may want to start with a more universal terminal like vt100 (yeah I know 
no pretty colors, but it should work).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Later,
> -J