Why does YaST now show lines as lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?

Question

Today my YaST started rendering lines like this:

It makes it difficult to read.. Any idea what this is about and how I can fix it? I tried rebooting, no dice.

Edit -- here's my PuTTY config:

Character set is UTF-8

Answer 1

Change "Terminal-type string" from "xterm" to "linux" in Connection>Data.

Answer 2

in bash, type: export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

Answer 3

Permanent solution for your problem:

For one user:

cd ~
echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> .bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

The last line applies changes to the current terminal immediately.

For all users:

echo "export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1" >> /etc/bash.bashrc.local

Answer 4

In PuTTY 0.81 (and possibly some earlier releases):

Settings > Window > Translation

Mark the checkbox [v] Enable VT100 drawing even in UTF-8 mode