Refer to this link: Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY
Add this into your .bashrc:
export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1
Then re-login.
If you want to keep this when using sudo, add this into your /etc/sudoers:
Defaults env_keep += "NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS"
Then restart the sudo service.