SecureCRT Configuration for Displaying Chinese and Colors

1. Configuring SecureCRT to Display Chinese

First, enable UTF-8 encoding on the remote Linux system by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

or

LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"

Actually, most modern Linux distributions already default to LANG="en_US.UTF-8". Then in SecureCRT, go to Options -> Session Options -> Appearance. When selecting a font, choose one that supports Chinese characters, such as "SimSun". Pay special attention to selecting the character set CHINESE_GB2312 in the font selection dialog.

Finally, set the character encoding to "UTF-8".

2. Displaying Colors

Go to Options -> Session Options -> Emulation. You can select any terminal type, just make sure to check "ANSI Color" to enable colored display. At this point, the background will turn black. If you don't like the black background, you can adjust the ANSI color scheme: Options -> Global Options -> Terminal -> Appearance -> ANSI Color. Change the first black color to white, and the last gray color to black.