putty isn't displaying correctly with 1.7

[Andy Koppe]

2009/12/26 Wes S :
> Below is excerpt from man file on touch.  Highlighted text is showing
> strange characters when I use putty to ssh in.  It was working fine
> before the 1.7 upgrade.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wes
>
>
>       âd, ââdate=STRING
>              parse STRING and use it instead of current time
>
>       âf     (ignored)
>
>       âm     change only the modification time
>
>       âr, ââreference=FILE
>              use this fileâs times instead of current time
>
>       ât STAMP
>              use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
>
>       ââtime=WORD
>              change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivâ
>              alent to âa WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to âm
>
>       ââhelp display this help and exit

Looks like you've got a mismatch between Cygwin's character set and
PuTTY's. Cygwin's default is UTF-8, whereas PuTTY's is ISO-8859-1.
Change it under Window/Translation in PuTTY's options. (Or use mintty,
which is a PuTTY derivative tailored for Cygwin, including 1.7's
locale system.)

Andy

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