question about fonts/PuTTY/pstree

[Peter Horst]

Mikkel L. Ellertson 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).
>>
>> I run the 'pstree' command and get back:
>>
>> # pstree
>> initââ¬âacpid
>>     ââatd
>> [snip]
>>     
> It is the LANG setting. A "quick and dirty" fix would be to run
> "export LANG=en_US". This will only help until you log out. You can
> also play with the font encoding in PuTTY. Try changing the Window
> --> Translation setting. Checking the "Override with UTF-8 ..." box
> or setting the UTF-8 character encoding may do the trick.
>   

Thanks everyone.  Flipping the indicated switch on PuTTY works great.  
(Window|Translation|Received data assumed to be in which character 
set:|"UTF-8")
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