armen said: > This explains why apps run straight through putty didn't experience this > issue. However when I ran an ncurses app via screen on putty, I > experienced a unique set of character mutations. I see. I missed that you were talking about the "screen" program, not just using screen in the generic sense. If you have repeatable issues with screen and UTF-8, report them to bugzilla. And older bug I found seems to indicate it should work. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78392 -- William Hooper