Arch Linux

fukawi2

Ex-Administratorino

From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,224

Website

Terminal displays diamond question marks instead of special chars

Not sure exactly when this came up, but some output on my home desktop now shows annoying diamond question mark characters instead of the proper special characters.

morpheus /etc/pacman.d # mv mirrorlist.pacnew mirrorlist
mv: overwrite <?><?><?>mirrorlist<?><?><?>? y

The forums strip out the special characters, so here's a screeneie:

Not sure exactly where this stems from; I'm guessing something to do with the removal of things from rc.conf to their own files, but not sure which part in particular affects this. I''ve compared my work machine (which doesn't display the issue) to my home machine and I can't find any differences that I think would cause it.

 $ cat locale.conf 
LOCALE="en_AU.UTF-8"

/etc $ cat vconsole.conf 
KEYMAP=us
#FONT=ter-i14n
#FONT_MAP=
#FONT_UNIMAP=

$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8

Last edited by fukawi2 (2012-09-21 12:52:02)

---

Are you familiar with our Forum Rules, and How To Ask Questions The Smart Way?

BlueHackers // fscanary // resticctl

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Terminal displays diamond question marks instead of special chars

There are many threads concerning issues with utf in console, try following https://plus.google.com/114015603831160 … zKCcnTWDpa to fix it.