YaST display not correct

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Configure-Administer
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I am running 30+ servers at SLES 11 SP3 on System z. On most of the servers the lines that make up the boxes are now letters.

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One of my servers displays the lines correctly.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ YaST2 Control Center │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

If I ssh from this server to the server that displays the lines incorrectly and launch yast, yast displays the lines properly.

I found a thread that addressed a similar issue from Feb 2013 but it didn’t have a resolution, it said to open an SR. I have issued “locale” on each of these servers and the display is the same.

How can I correct this? The problem makes the display hard to read with all of the extra alphabetic characters (as opposed to the line drawings).

Harley

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Hi Harley,

this might be a codepage issue on the client - interpreting the server’s response (the individual characters) wrongly.

What client are you using to display the output?

Regards,
Jens

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Hi Jens,

I’m using PuTTY.

Harley

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Hi Harley,

[QUOTE=x0500hl;21164]Hi Jens,

I’m using PuTTY.

Harley[/QUOTE]

and how are your code page settings, do they match?

Regards,
Jens

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Jens,

Problem solved! The codepage for PuTTY sessions with the problem were set to UTF8. The session for the server that didn’t have the problem was set to “ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)”. I chaneg the setting from UTF8 and YaST is now displaying properly.

Thank you!

Harley

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Hi Harley,

[QUOTE=x0500hl;21167]Jens,

Problem solved! The codepage for PuTTY sessions with the problem were set to UTF8. The session for the server that didn’t have the problem was set to “ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)”. I chaneg the setting from UTF8 and YaST is now displaying properly.

Thank you!

Harley[/QUOTE]

…and I thank you for reporting back, this will for sure help others that run into the same situation!

Regards,
Jens