title: Character set encoding for serial connection in putty
body: <p>I have connected a gsm/gprs modem to the putty terminal on windows 7 for serial communication. The AT commands work but the response from the modem is displayed as special characters which is not readable. Both the port and the modem is configured at 9600 baud. I changed the character encoding to utf-8 (Window->translation->character set) but the results were the same.
  Please help.</p>