How to get UTF-8 locale when connecting via SSH to MacOSX from PuTTY (Windows)
Solution 1:
Solved my problem using Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7165108/in-osx-lion-lang-is-not-set-to-utf8-how-fix
The most important part of the answer:
Try adding or editing the
~/.profilefile for it to correctly export your locale settings upon initiating a new session.export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8