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Why does MC look like this in SSH clients (I've tried PuTTY and MindTerm) and how to fix it?

On the server side is fresh installed 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 Server. On the client side is XP SP3.

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This has been addressed (putty specifically) on superuser: http://superuser.com/questions/75088/putty-correct-translation-on-ubuntu-8-04

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I've found the exact answer here:

After some experimentation it turns out that to fix it all you have to do is change your character set in PuTTY to UTF-8 and the problem is fixed. To do this open up the PuTTY settings and go to Window->Translation->Received data assumed to be in which character set: and change it to UTF-8.
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It's a character set mismatch. Why don't you just use WinSCP?

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WinSCP (a pure SCP/SFTP client) and PuTTY (a full-featured SSH client) do quite different things, although the underlying protocol is the same. – joschi Jun 2 '10 at 6:39
@joschi, I'm well aware they do different things, as I use them both every day. I was suggesting WinSCP as an alternative to MC, not PuTTY. I'd have thought that was obvious from the context. – John Gardeniers Jun 2 '10 at 11:48
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John, Midnight Commander and WinSCP also have vastly different use cases and are usually not interchangeable. – joschi Jun 2 '10 at 11:57
To those who feel an urge to downvote this answer I can only say that you have clearly not discovered just how effective a file manager WinSCP really is. – John Gardeniers Oct 14 '10 at 1:52

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