utf 8 - Tmux borders displayed as x q instead of lines?

Question

I'm having trouble getting tmux to display lines for borders. They are being created with x and q. It's a debian squeeze server and the locale is set to en_US UTF8. I also tried adding

# instructs tmux to expect UTF-8 sequences
setw -g utf8 on
set -g status-utf8 on

lines to .tmux.conf. Nothing seems to work. I'm not sure if it's a locale issue or not. It displays correctly on other servers, but not the debian. I appreciate any tips you could offer! Thanks...

Answer 1

I had the same problem with PuTTY and Windows 8 when connecting to tmux running on a Debian Squeeze machine. Even when setting the charset to UTF-8 in PuTTY (in the settings under Window > Translation > Remote character set) I didn't get the correct line drawing.

Setting the Remote character set to "Use font encoding" did the trick for me.