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How can I change locale/encoding to avoid getting weird characters in terminal?
I have installed tree on my ubuntu box, when i connect to it from Putty and I launch tree i get this :
$ tree
âââ html.vim -> xml.vim
âââ js.vim -> xml.vim
âââ xml.vim
instead of this :
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How to get rid of special characters in the output of make on centos
I installed centos6.3. When I run gcc, it outputs errors but the function names are surrounded by special characters like this
‘setup_connection’:
This same is repeated with variable names. I ...
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Effect of $LANG on terminal
I'm trying to learn how the $LANG variable behaves with gnome-terminal (and its character encoding preference option). I've been using iso8859-1 (latin1) as my main character-set and all my filenames ...
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Terminal Character Encoding Issue BitchX
I ran BitchX on three different Linux OS-es because I got this weird � (question mark) on two of them (Linux OpenSUSE 11.4 and BackTrack 5 R1) using yakuake/konsole (OpenSUSE) and terminator/tilda (BT ...
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Font encoding in Terminal
I have a problem with my font encoding in terminator
When I first lauch it and then launch vim nerdTree the small ▸ are displayed well.
But if I quit vim and then type reset in my terminator they are ...
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TUI interfaces not displaying correctly
I have an Ubuntu 11.04 server on Amazon EC2 which cannot display TUI interfaces correctly, like on Midnight Commander or tree.
I'm quite sure that this problem was not there when I set it up, and I ...
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working with filenames in a different encoding over ssh
I'm ssh'ing to a remote system where a different encoding for the filenames (and for the users' locales) has been used. And this causes some problems.
Problems solved by matching the locale settings
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why does my emacs whitespace mode add “” to my buffer?
I'm using Putty to ssh into a RedHat box, and I'm running GNU emacs inside the putty ssh window.
When I turn on whitespace-mode using M-x whitespace mode, I notice I see a "Â" before each space or ...
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Encoding changed after running cat
After running cat on some files I get the infamous 'bushes':
␌⎺└⎻⎼␊⎽⎽␊␍ ├▒⎼ °␋┌␊. B␊├├␊⎼ ┤⎽␊ ├▒⎼'⎽ ≥
which I believe are result of encoding being changed.
Is there any way to recover the terminal ...
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What encoding does my Konsole support?
How can I check what encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 etc) my Terminal uses?
It shouldn't matter, but I am using Konsole on KDE3.5.
