VPS displaying funny characters instead of special characters

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Pretty sure it doesn't matter but I've had about a dozen OpenVz vps' and never seen this until I bought a Xen server for the first time.

Special characters like « get all funky and look like this: ï¿½

What can be done to so the characters display properly? Using Debian

weeheavy · Answer 1 · 2011-09-07 07:59:21Z

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How are you connecting to the VPS, via PuTTY for example? If yes, set the encoding to UTF-8 in the settings ("Translations").

If you're connecting from a client via ssh command directly, please show us the output of echo $LANG (both on the client and the server).

answered Sep 7 '11 at 7:59

weeheavy
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	`Rx:~# echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8` And I am using putty, but can't seem to find settings -> translations – Kevin Duke Sep 7 '11 at 18:29
	when I do echo $LANG on my openVZ vps' I get no output – Kevin Duke Sep 7 '11 at 18:31
	Sorry - the PuTTY setting is in Window -> Translation. If your VPS doesn't show anything in $LANG you need to configure the locale via `dkpkg-reconfigure locales`. – weeheavy Sep 8 '11 at 8:14
	`Rx:/etc/default# more locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"` – Kevin Duke Sep 12 '11 at 0:34

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