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ywy

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Registered: 2022-10-12

Posts: 4

Question marks in terminal - bug

Today I installed and configured arch, installed the fonts noto-fonts ttf-dejavu, ttf-droid, ttf-liberation, ttf-ubuntu-font-family, noto-fonts-cjk, noto-fonts-emoji.
But I still see these strange question marks in the terminal, for example, with the systemctl status dhcpcd command:

https://i.imgur.com/XLZ8UBS.jpg

And in many other places, for example, when installing programs, they also appear. I have not used arch linux for a long time and I do not understand what happened at all

moderator edit -- replaced oversized image with link.
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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2022-10-12 15:19:46)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,477

Re: Question marks in terminal - bug

Output in code tags rather than an image of 

locale
locale -a
localectl
fc-match monospace

ywy

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Registered: 2022-10-12

Posts: 4

Re: Question marks in terminal - bug

Output in code tags rather than an image of 

locale
locale -a
localectl
fc-match monospace

Here everything is like a standard installation
locale:

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

locale -a:

C
C.UTF-8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
ru_RU.utf8

localectl:

  System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a

fc-match monospace:

NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Mono" "Regular"

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 64,560

Re: Question marks in terminal - bug

This is a locale issue for sure, the thing in front of "dhcpcd" would be U+25CF, "●"
The locale config looks fine, though.

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$$/environ | grep -E '(LC|LANG)'
tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$PPID/environ | grep -E '(LC|LANG)'

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cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,167

Re: Question marks in terminal - bug

Does your terminal emulator let you set a specific font which might be overriding the system monospace default?

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