Serial console character settings

[deviantintegral]

What terminal type / character settings should I use with the serial console? I've tried:

• screen under OS X and Linux
• minicom under OS X and Linux
• The OS X Terminal app and iTerm2
• Serial on OS X
• Putty on Windows

The APU2 BIOS and the regular shell prompt after an install seem OK. I've tried a variety of UTF / ISO character settings, TERM=ansi, vt100, xterm. No matter what, I always get misrepresented characters in the installer menus. Putty + UTF-8 + TERM=xterm seems to be the closest, but still has some mismapped characters.

Thanks!