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

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 : $ ...
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How to get rid of special characters in the output of make on centos

I installed centos6.3. When I run gcc, it outputs errors but the function names are surrounded by special characters like this ‘setup_connection’: This same is repeated with variable names. I ...
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Effect of $LANG on terminal

I'm trying to learn how the $LANG variable behaves with gnome-terminal (and its character encoding preference option). I've been using iso8859-1 (latin1) as my main character-set and all my filenames ...