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jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

Posts: 307

Unicode problem with KDE/plasma/konsole (I think)

systemctl status something.service

produces an unprintable character (well, something is printed, but it's not pretty) in konsole if /etc/locale.conf has this content:

LANG=en_US.utf8

If I remove /etc/locale.conf, reboot, the same systemctl command produces an ASCII asterisk in the same place. (locale says it's C now.)

It seems that systemctl correctly picks up the locale, decides to emit UTF-8, but that konsole somehow doesn't want to render this.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Johannes.

Nighpher

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 13

Re: Unicode problem with KDE/plasma/konsole (I think)

Could we get a screenshot? I'm having no such problem with Konsole.

Here's my screenshot : https://i.imgur.com/8bxk9cb.png

jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

Posts: 307

Re: Unicode problem with KDE/plasma/konsole (I think)

Here you are: http://upon2020.com/public/konsole.png

(There's an unrelated problem with font resizing when the screen size changes, which is why the menu items look smeared.)

Nighpher

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Registered: 2014-12-29

Posts: 13

Re: Unicode problem with KDE/plasma/konsole (I think)

Even my green dot is a little bit cut off at the sides. I guess then it's a font issue.. Have you tried changing your font to something else... maybe Inconsolata works?

EDIT : I just tried the same command on gnome-terminal, and it's showing no such effects there.. maybe it's a konsole bug after all!

Last edited by Nighpher (2015-06-25 06:25:04)

jernst

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From: Silicon Valley

Registered: 2014-03-04

Posts: 307

Re: Unicode problem with KDE/plasma/konsole (I think)

Nighpher: I doubt it's a font issue because if it were, I'd expect the dot/asterisk to be off, but not the rest of the line.