Strange characters in ansi-term in emacs

Question

I wrote a c++ program and when I compiled it using g++ in ansi-term, I got some strange characters displayed:

If required, the error was that i hadn't declared the variable n. How can I correct this?

Answer 1

Ah! Tested this...

 (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

and problem solved!!!