Getting  and â characters in Linux PuTTY console

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I am very much annoyed by â and  being outputted in the manual outputs of most commands I run.

Can someone please suggest a solution?

I am using PuTTY in SSH mode and my Linux server is customized by Amazon EC2.

echo $TERM
xterm

´B´ :Bold_Disable/Enable_toggle
              This command will influence use of the âboldâ terminfo capability and alters both the summary area and task area for the  ´cur-
              rentâ window.  While it is intended primarily for use with dumb terminals, it can be applied anytime.

              Note:  When  this  toggle  is On and top is operating in monochrome mode, the entire display will appear as normal text.  Thus,
              unless the âxâ and/or âyâ ...

P K

Posted 2011-12-11T17:35:07.017

Reputation: 1 753

Answers

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Is your terminal configured to display UTF-8? Try to keep locale and terminal setting in accord. If connecting through ssh, you should take the target machine's locale into consideration, too.

In PuTTY, go to Settings -> Window -> Translation -> UTF-8

choroba

Posted 2011-12-11T17:35:07.017

Reputation: 14 741

How can i check that in putty? my terminal type is echo $TERM xterm – P K – 2011-12-11T17:50:00.347

14The encoding is not related to terminal type or $TERM. In PuTTY, go to Settings -> Window -> Translation. – user1686 – 2011-12-11T17:53:18.187

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The default putty window translation is Latin-1, but needs to be UTF-8.

Screen shot of where in the putty interface the change needs to be made

Vladimir Kornea

Posted 2011-12-11T17:35:07.017

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