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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