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Is there a client that has UTF8 as default and something different than the courier font?

It's two clicks after you install putty.

select Default, go change those two options (recommend the Mensch font, but that's purely personal). Go back to the sessions screen, save this as default.

done. now every session you create will have UTF8 and a decent font by default.

I also suggest you change scroll back to 999 or 9999. And change the color of bold blue to something readable.

PuTTY beta 0.63 defaults to UTF-8 encoding and 2000 lines of scrollback (rather than ISO 8859-1 and 200).

Those are actually more than two clicks and sadly enough to frustrate me every time.

There must be a fork with sane defaults out there somewhere.

You could probably export a Registry file that has all your settings and then import on a new machine.

The last time I used windows a bit (I think it was around the Planetside 2 launch...), I noted down this:

# set up for putty: # From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment:

reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg reg import putty.reg

I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).

if you are a putty user, do this. its very time consuming to set up putty especially colors but its easy to keep all your settings in a reg file.

The fork I'm just about to patch is FuTTY - https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY which includes save-settings-to-file. The screen resizing behaviour (as a result of Screen's +flow command) might drive you crazy though.

UTF-8 is the default as of v0.63 [1].

[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...

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