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needmoreram

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 8

Characters messed up is tty's

Ever since I updated all my packages today, some special characters like  '   ─  are not displayed correctly in the tty's. However, they are displayed correctly over ssh. I use bash shell.

Example 1 Apostrophe appears as âÇÿ
Example 2 ─ appears as âÇö

I have tried to re-genrate my locale but still the problem persists.

Here is my 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=

needmoreram

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 8

Re: Characters messed up is tty's

Problem persists even after changing font and shell. But the character substitutions are different for each font. For example, an apostrophe is âµç using Lat2Terminus16 font.

meph

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Registered: 2011-06-06

Posts: 160

Re: Characters messed up is tty's

Ever since I updated all my packages today

Which packages were updated? See /var/log/pacman.log if not sure

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Characters messed up is tty's

Let me guess, is you have this line in /etc/rc.conf

DAEMON_LOCALE="no"

.   If so change it to "yes".

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needmoreram

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 8

Re: Characters messed up is tty's

Yes. That was the problem.

I'm not sure if it has always been like that (OR)
if I mindlessly replaced rc.conf with rc.conf.pacnew that came along with the update to initscipts

Thank you both of you for your help!

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,330

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Re: Characters messed up is tty's

Given the flurry of people with this exact same problem "after a recent update" I suspect it must have been from too quick of a merging of a pacnew file.

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"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman