Topic: Telnet Screens working in Win's telnet client

[Wei]

This is a trivial one, admitedly about "window dressing"
...but image can be everything, sometimes, right?  

When we use Win NT 4's telnet client to access an e-smith
box's admin screens from a workstation, "foreign characters"
make up the graphics of each screen's frame.

There ought to be -either-
  a way to change the assumption about
  what the telnet client(s) will be able to display

-or- an auto-detect mechanism that selects a terminal
     type after a brief "What Can You Do?" interchange,

so that showing prospective users (or paying cutomers even)
how to shutdown the e-smith box via an admin screen isn't
going to show a "less well designed" interface
than the ones they'll experience via a browser.

I presume a workaround for this is just a matter of
finding the template(s) for the "offending" screens
and changing them...

or - better - picking a value for TERM that
more closely matches the expectations of
Win NT's telnet client...

but wouldn't 'ya really expect that the installation
would assume the Windows telnet emulation capabilities
in the first place...?  

What am I missing?