How can I change locale/encoding to avoid getting weird characters in terminal?

Question

I have installed tree on my ubuntu box, when i connect to it from Putty and I launch tree i get this :

$ tree
âââ html.vim -> xml.vim
âââ js.vim -> xml.vim
âââ xml.vim

instead of this :

$ tree --charset=ANSII
|-- html.vim -> xml.vim
|-- js.vim -> xml.vim
`-- xml.vim

I also get this problem when e.g. I list my packages from npm (package manager from nodejs)

$ npm list
/home/monkey/scripts/chatter
âââŹ express@3.0.6
â âââ buffer-crc32@0.1.1
â âââ commander@0.6.1
â âââŹ connect@2.7.2
â â âââ bytes@0.1.0

How can I change that (either from Putty or linux box) ?

@zxcdw This worked thanks. You can post it as an answer so that I can accept it.

zxcdw · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-14 20:22:49Z

up vote 7 down vote accepted

Change the character translation in PuTTY to UTF-8.

answered Jan 14 at 20:22

zxcdw
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