question about fonts/PuTTY/pstree

[Justin Willmert]

Peter Horst wrote:
> Brian Chadwick wrote:
>> Peter Horst wrote:
>>> Logging into an FC-5 machine via PuTTY (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 #1 Tue Aug 
>>> 8 15:30:55 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386).
>>>
>>> [snip pstree adding garbage characters]
>> i am guessing ... but its to to do with locale setting somehow ... ar 
>> you running a fresh FC .. or have you loaded heaps os stuff?
> Thanks - it's pretty fresh, and pretty stripped-down. No X server.  
> Tell you the truth, I've removed more than I've added to this machine.
>
PuTTY by default uses the ISO-8859-1 charset (a.k.a Latin-1, West 
Europe). If you change to the UTF-8 charset and then run pstree, the 
output should look just fine.

Justin Willmert