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I use PuTTY on Windows 7 to access a Linux machine with Ubuntu 10.10. I think that Windows 7 is using Latin-1. But I need to use UTF-8 on the Linux machine and in a PostgreSQL database.

How can I do this with PuTTY?

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You can set PuTTY to use UTF-8 from the configuration dialog when you connect. Go to Window -> Translation, and set "Received data assumed to be in which character set" to UTF-8.

Also check that your locale is something ending in UTF-8 by running locale after connecting.

If it's not, run locale -a to see all the locales you have available. If there are no UTF-8 locales available, you need to configure your /etc/locale.gen, it's usually fairly well commented and it should be obvious what to add or uncomment. Then run locale-gen and check locale -a again to see the UTF-8 locale that was generated.

Something like export LC_ALL="sv_SE.UTF-8" ought to do the trick of actually setting the locale if and when it's generated.

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@Jonas: That seems fine, UTF-8 locales all support the same symbols. sv_SE.UTF-8 is just the Swedish locale, whereas en_US.UTF-8 is the United States locale. In practice this only affects for example month names, date/time formatting and other minor stuff that varies by country. – jho Mar 30 '11 at 8:24
Thanks, just changing the setting in PuTTY: Window > Translate as you mentioned was enough. – Jonas Mar 30 '11 at 8:29
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Related: How to make the setting persistent. – grawity Mar 30 '11 at 10:50
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