Windows telnet client displays garbage characters when connected to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

When user connects to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 using Windows telnet client, and compiles C programs, junk or garbage characters are displayed.

[test@test ~]$ gcc test.c   
test1.c: In function ΓÇÿmainΓÇÖ:

When one connects via telnet from a Windows system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system, the telnet client uses the character encoding from Windows. This results in the strange characters. Windows does not use utf-8 character encoding like RHEL.

Using putty on Windows as the telnet client solves the issue. In putty, go to Translation -- > change 'ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)' to UTF-8 and then connect .