Mult-byte chars get displayed with single-byte encoding

Question

Mult-byte chars get displayed with single-byte encoding

Here's my code:

console.log('\u00A9');

My console output (from node.js) is:

Â©

How do I get rid of that Â character?

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javascript
node.js
character-encoding
putty

Answer 1

In PuTTY configuration, please have a look at Window→Translation. You probably have the default value at "Character set translation on received data", which is ISO-8859-1 or a similar single-byte encoding. You need to change it to UTF-8.