Strange characters appear when accessing RHEL from other Operating Systems
Issue
- When accessing a RHEL system via ssh using terminal programs on other Operating Systems like Mac OSX or Microsoft Windows, strange characters appear in certain command outputs. For example, while compiling a program with an error the following wrong characters might be displayed:
a.c:3: error: expected ג€˜=ג€™, ג€˜,ג€™, ג€˜;ג€™, ג€˜asmג€™ or ג€˜__attribute__ג€™ before ג€˜intג€™
- Putty displays junk characters.
Environment
- RHEL
- Microsoft Windows
- MAC OSX
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