Question What settings should I use under PuTTY to fix the terminal emulation?

[Cecil]

I want the nice ASCII art style and I'm trying to avoid this:

File Edit Search Buffer Compile Tools Help
l    q    q      q      k       q  q  q       q        qq      q
x New             ESC-N x
x Open...         F5    x
x Close           F8    x
x qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq x
x Save            F6    x
x Save As...      ESC-A x
x qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq x
x Print                 x
x qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq x
x Exit                  x
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q File: Untitled:1 qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq

                                                                               Insert                                                                          Insert                                                                          InF1=RUN  F3=MENUS  F5=OPEN  F6=SAVE  F8=CLOSE

Extra Info:
$TERM = xterm

 

[Stefan]

Try the Google Chrome SSH extension - with TERM=XTERM everything is rendered nicely.

As to putty - go to file / change settings - window / translation and change 'received data assumed to be in which character set' from utf-8 to Win 1252 (Western)

 

[Cecil]

Thanks Stefan.
Now I just need to fix the Delete & Backspace keys.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Now I just need to fix the Delete & Backspace keys.

Are you using the default protermcap or a custom one? Here are the applicable lines (I think) from the xterm section of my protermcap:
:BACKSPACE:\
:BACKSPACE(DEL-CHAR)=\E?~:\

In PuTTY settings | Terminal | Keyboard I set "The Backspace key" to "Control-H".