Can PuTTY be configured to display the following UTF-8 characters?

Posted by Stuart Powers on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Stuart Powers
Published on 2012-04-11T04:35:03Z Indexed on 2012/04/11 5:31 UTC
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I'd like to be able to render the characters as seen in this tweet:

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I saved the tweet's JSON data and wrote a one-liner python script for testing.

python -c 'import json,urllib; print json.load(urllib.urlopen("http://c.sente.cc/BUCq/tweet.json"))["text"]'

This next image shows the output of this command on two different putty sessions, one with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font and the other is using Courier New:

enter image description here

Next is an example of correct output (I wasn't using PuTTY):

Correct Unicode Output

The original JSON is at this link using Twitter's API.

How can I get PuTTY to display those characters?

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