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Help with PuTTY Terminal Settings - Unrecognized Characters

Help with PuTTY Terminal Settings - Unrecognized Characters

I am running PuTTY on Windows 7/64-bit laptop. I am connecting to an Ubuntu 9.10/64-bit system running OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2. When I am running some command, the output contains unrecognized characters, like this:

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"PuTTY is interpreting the characters being sent by the terminal incorrectly.

You can change the character set under the Window category in the Translation settings. Change the Received data assumed to be in which character set: to the correct character set. UTF-8 worked for me."