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Putty renders backtick as a circumflex

When using Putty to connect to a Gentoo UTF-8 machine, backticks are represented as an "a circumflex": รข Putty makes a quote into an "a circumflex". How to I prevent this from happening?
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Unadvisable to use UTF-8 for mails?

Thunderbird (in German) uses the charset ISO-8859-15 (or -1, can't check right now) by default for outgoing and incoming mails. (If you want to change the default, see Change Thunderbird default ...
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Why is windows 8 rendering CRLFs as a Square Character [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Unknown glyph symbols on the Volume Mixer In a number of random locations in windows 8 (one of which is the volume control) it seems to be rendering the end of line as a ...
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How to mount via cifs non-unicode samba sever with character set conversion?

in old times of smbfs I use codepage and iocharset options, but cifs does not support codepage. What I can do?
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How is character encoding inside Sakura done?

In the Sakura editor, you can have a .txt file with UTF-8 encoding, which contains 2 characters that are not available in EUC charset. When I saved a .txt from UTF-8 to EUC in the editor, it all ...
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How to set a character set per application in *nix?

I am attempting to set a character set of IBM850 on slackware linux for a particular application (epic5). Im using rxvt-unicode and have setup LANG/LC_*=en_US. Now if I set the encoding to IBM850 in ...
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How can I type with Chinese characters in Windows 7?

I have a standard US version of Windows 7. I would like to input Chinese characters in Adobe Premier Pro. How can I do this?
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Strange font behavior in “displaying source code mode” of Firefox

When visiting "http://www.veritech.co.kr/" and displaying the source code (ctrl-u) the font used for the displaying the code is different from the usual font. The charset used by this page is not very ...
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Change the default codepage from latin1 to utf8 on a linux machine

How can I change the default codepage/charset on a linux system from latin1 to utf8? I need to do this on two systems, one is running Ubuntu and the other Debian.
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How do I connect from a utf-8 client to a latin1 server over ssh?

I have a fresh Ubuntu install and I want to connect over ssh in a gnome-terminal. The server uses latin1 (All files etc. are latin1), so I want to use that in the session. I have changed the charset ...