Emacs color names

[Emanuel Schmid]

Hi

I'm trying to make some step forward from emacs 21 to emacs 23. I mainly 
use it for VHDL.

Currently I don't get decent colour names if I'm running through putty, 
as described in 
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PuTTY for emacs 21 and 22, but the remedy 
there doesn't help.

Further, it seems that VHDL mode is not correctly working even in an 
xterm, where the colour names appear correctly (with spaces in the name 
though?).

Does anyone have ideas/experience about this?

Thanks,
Emanuel

PS: please keep me on CC