I tried Putty - it does display man pages correctly, but I could not fix the line drawing characters, so mutt, slrn, did not display lines/arrows correctly.
Anyway, I'll follow the suggestion elsewhere in this thread - if my TERM is VTsomething, will force LANG to be just en_US. I still prefer to use TerraTerm (unlike Putty, it does not support UTF-8), since it has ZModem support, great for quickly transfering files.
Usually I have it set to just "C" (default POSIX locale). I hate when ls intermix dot files with "normal" files in ls -a output, and don't like lower/upercase being ignored when sorting either. Setting LANG to C solves both problems :-)
Everything works, it works as expected on Unix-like system (including the way files are sorted in ls output), nothing is broken (actually, it fixes ls output, as I mentioned before).
Wonder whose bright idea was to ignore leading dot when sorting....
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