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I am trying to use Airodump-ng in WSL 2 KALI LINUX and they give me the the following warninig:
Warning: Detected you are using a non-UNICODE terminal character encoding
when I type $locale charmap, I get that I am using ->ANSI_X3.4-1968
then how to change ANSI_X3.4-1968 to UTF-8 so to have a UNICODE terminal? tell me how to get a UNICODE terminal in wsl 2 kali linux?
Typically, the character map is part of the locale settings that you're using. If you don't have any locale settings set, they default to C or POSIX, which use ASCII (in this case, written as ANSI_X3.4-1968). This warning occurs when the locale's character set is not UTF-8.
On most modern Linux systems, you can simply use the C.UTF-8 locale, which works just like the C locale, except that it uses UTF-8. Typically, you can do this by setting the environment variable LANG to C.UTF-8, usually in your shell configuration, and then restarting your shell (e.g., with exec bash or exec zsh). You can also change this for the current shell by doing export LANG=C.UTF-8.
You may also wish to use a locale which reflects the language and territory you're actually located in, or one whose language you care for. For example, you could choose en_US.UTF-8, es_MX.UTF-8, or fr_CH.UTF-8 as you see fit. Note that on some systems, you need to compile locales before you can use them, whereas C.UTF-8 is typically available without needing to do this on systems where it's available at all.
Note that you can also change this by setting LC_ALL, but that overrides all other settings, whereas LANG is the fallback default. As a consequence, it's better to use LANG so you can customize individual settings (e.g., LC_TIME) as you see fit.
It might also be the case that the locale was set to C by the terminal emulator because it simply doesn't support UTF-8, but that's not the case for Microsoft Terminal (the default WSL2 terminal emulator) or virtually every other modern terminal emulator, which do indeed support UTF-8.
