I recently installed Arch Linux on a Beaglebone Black. Now I'm trying to use emacs-nox on it and when I type into the terminal (on my Xubuntu system connected by ssh to the Beaglebone) everything seems normal so far, but when I display help files such as the Emacs Manual or the Emacs FAQ I'm seeing a lot of unicode codes instead of quotation marks, hyphens and other symbols, e.g.:
\u2018 instead of `
\u2019 instead of '
\u2014 instead of -
and so on.

I've tried setting the terminal encoding to various values other than the default (UTF-8) but that doesn't seem to make any difference. I don't see this problem with emacs-nox installed and running directly in my Xubuntu system. Am I lacking some package or is this just a characteristic of Arch Linux's emacs-nox in particular ?