[TriLUG] Sorta OT: UTF-8, Windows, and PuTTY

[Michael Tharp]

Jason Faulkner wrote:
> Basically, at first, it showed up as binary jibberish. After doing
> some PuTTY and Windows reconfiguring, I got it to display those little
> boxes for each letter.
I take it you've already found "Window -> Translation -> Received data 
assumed to be in which character set"? That's all that I have had to do 
in the past. There is also a possibility that your $TERM is causing 
confusion, as PuTTY pretends to be xterm.