How to translate character and font sets ?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

below is an example of dialog script from the net, I would like to run
from a command line in putty terminal opened session.
The issue is some characters get replaced by dots.

Could you advise me a solution to edit the following string into
window character set accepted by putty ?

I can make a selection in putty configuration
Window / translation / character set.

Unfortunately I don't know which one should I select.
In the following example characters replaced by putty into dots
come from Verdana character set.

Do I need any special tool ?

To see the problem, please copy & paste the below string into putty terminal command line.

Jack

dialog -yesno �Are you learning anything from this blog� 5 50 && echo �Yes, thanks Owen.� || echo �No, Write some better Linux Related Posts�

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  1. Select from Web
  2. Copy to Notepad. Select the (") character in the dialog command (which looks same but is actually different from the usual double quote). Edit->Replace-> paste this character in "Find What" and then type an actual double quote in "Replace with".
  3. Do the same for the (-) looking character in front of "yesno" with an actual dash.
  4. Copy from Notepad and paste into Putty.

OR

You can simply use your eyes to read and fingers to type into putty the old fashioned way :slight_smile:

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Thanks again my dear friend.
As dialog examples come from the net, I still expect for a script solution for a number of examples from the net.
In the above example, one issue is font, another is a character.
For 10-20 examples it takes to much time for manual edition of each .

Any idea for a working script ?
Jack
as more examples to come for tests , as I need to learn dialog