Ncurses prompts look broken in PuTTY from Windows

Byobu looks very broken in PuTTY. I've already fixed the key mapping issue, but this issue isn't specified in the man page or even Google:

Notice the misplaced position of the list of windows, the broken selector position, the duplication of the last window, the random a in the top right, and the misplaced apply option. You can't see this, but the last option is not selectable.

Is there some option in PuTTY I need to use in order to see this correctly?

Configure putty to read utf8. putty -> config -> window -> translation choose utf in "Recieved data in ..." This is not a byobu issue, it is a putty issue.

See also:

• https://superuser.com/questions/264363/how-can-i-use-utf-8-on-linux-from-windows-7-via-putty
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/859565/correct-putty-configuration-for-ubuntu-9-04

Related to Putty, I added this note to the byobu(1) manpage a while back:

> PuTTY  users have reported that the
> F2, F3, and F4 shortcut keys are not
> working properly.  PuTTY sends the
> same escape sequences as the linux
> console for F1-F4 by default.  You can
> fix this problem in the PuTTY config,
> Terminal -> Keyboard -> Function keys:
> Xterm R6.

See:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01525.html