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jNumbers

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Registered: 2017-12-01

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Terminal Displaying Unknown Characters

I have suddenly received strange characters on my terminal and I'm not sure why. I made sure that

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

is uncommented in

locale.gen

to make sure it's not a UTF-8 issue.

For example, when I type

lsblk

I get the following: lsblk unknown char

Any idea what this might be?

Last edited by jNumbers (2018-03-03 04:09:25)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminal Displaying Unknown Characters

Did you also regenerate and configure the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale ?

locale
locale -a
localectl

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminal Displaying Unknown Characters

Is it just lsblk?  I.e., does `lsblk -i` look ok, and does `pstree` show odd characters in place of the line drawing?

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jNumbers

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Registered: 2017-12-01

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Terminal Displaying Unknown Characters

Did you also regenerate and configure the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale ?

It appears that I forgot to set 'localectl'.
Thank you.