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btorb

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Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 28

wrong encoding on disk: characters not correctly encoded [SOLVED]

I don't even know how to start investigating what's wrong. Clearly, some part of the encoding is wrong. For instance, (when I do "ls"):

Every character with some accent on it ü, ä etc are displayed in the same incorrect way. I have a fairly fresh install of Archlinux and run systemd (using the september install media). Any ideas of what I did wrong?

(It's fairly important as i have quite a few folders with these characters in it (which I copied from another computer, also running Arch) and I cannot access those folders anymore!)

Last edited by btorb (2012-10-17 09:48:08)

btorb

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Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 28

Re: wrong encoding on disk: characters not correctly encoded [SOLVED]

Solved: the /etc/locale.gen and /etc/locale.conf were incorrect.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ide#Locale for the guideline.

(Thanks Arch for such a good documentation! I leave this post as I can imagine toher people making the same mistake as I did)