Found the problem several google searches later... need to use UTF8
encoding instead of ISO-8859-1 as found on this website:
http://turbulentsky.com/cygwin-funny-characters-man-pages-putty.html

On 02/10/2012 08:07 PM, Lists wrote:
> Trying to use Putty 0.62 (the most current version I can find) and
> when I use the c compiler, I see a bunch of terminal codes that
> obfuscate the output of the compiler. (Teaching my son some programming)
>
> Anybody know what I should be setting to what? It's pretty much a
> CentOS6 server set up with defaults. You can see what I'm talking about
>
> http://i.imgur.com/dpwLg.png
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> -Ben

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Lists writes:

> Found the problem several google searches later... need to use UTF8
> encoding instead of ISO-8859-1 as found on this website:
> http://turbulentsky.com/cygwin-funny-characters-man-pages-putty.html
>

Check this too
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/improving-putty-settings-on-windows

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