How do I fix weird characters showing up when using PuTTY?

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How do I fix weird characters showing up when using PuTTY?

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Weird characters such as 'â' can show up if you aren't using the correct encoding in ssh.

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You can correct this by firing up PuTTY, going to Translation and changing the Remote Character Set to UTF-8. That will fix the weird 'â' that show up.

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Then, htop looks like this:

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