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
â  âââ __init__.py
â  âââ __init__.pyc
â  âââ userpass.py
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