Garbled Text for Tree -- Ubuntu/Putty/UTF-8

June 30, 2014 Francis Luong

I use putty at home to connect to my Ubuntu VMs for development and I was getting garbled output for tree.

fluong@ubuntu:~/pyjnx$ tree
.
âââ auth
âÂ Â  âââ __init__.py
âÂ Â  âââ __init__.pyc
âÂ Â  âââ userpass.py
âÂ Â  âââ userpass.pyc

I did some searching and found this solution: setting UTF-8 remote character set for putty.

Now everything is pretty and I am happy.

fluong@ubuntu:~/pyjnx$ tree
.
├── auth
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __init__.pyc
│   ├── userpass.py
│   └── userpass.pyc