Feature Request: Character Set translation #14785

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opened 2026-01-31 04:19:20 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @doggy8088 on GitHub (Aug 4, 2021).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

In PuTTY, there is a convenient feature called Character set translation. See below:

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Sometimes we have to deal with some files or programs that can only deal with non-unicode characters. In Windows Terminal, it can only deal with UTF-8 character set. This limitation will lead us unable to deal with that kind of situations.

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Reference: starred/terminal#14785