How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters? [closed]

You almost certainly have set the wrong character set in your PuTTY settings.

Verify the character set on the remote system by running the command:

locale

This should return something like:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

So check your PuTTY settings under Translation and ensure that you have UTF-8 set as the character set.

You may need to tweak the line drawing setting as well, but it is probably not likely.