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