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PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:16 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Strange symbol in place of ' in terminal output Reply with quote

I've just installed Gentoo, my locale settings look fine but if I:

Code:

# touch a.txt
# cp -v a.txt b.txt


I see the below output:

Code:

âa.txtâ -> âb.txtâ


This is what it looks like though putty. Directly through the terminal the 'â' symbols are little white squares.

Any ideas?


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought this would be an easy/quick one! :wink:

Here is my locale settings:

Code:

# locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, I've noticed that if I change the translation options within putty to use the UTF-8 remote character set, the output is displayed as I would expect.

Code:

‘a.txt’ -> ‘b.txt’
removed ‘./a.txt’
removed ‘./b.txt’


What's going on here then?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're asking for Linux to output UTF-8 to a system that can't handle it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your help but what can't handle it? The rm command/verbose option?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:06 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Strange symbol in place of ' in terminal output Reply with quote

I posted the question on www.linuxquestions.org and got my answer pretty quickly. Here it is in case it helps anyone.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/strange-white-square-symbols-in-place-of-left-and-right-apostrophe-4175472785/
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:10 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Strange symbol in place of ' in terminal output Reply with quote

For any British people using Gentoo, the output from "locale" should look like this.

Code:

andy@storm ~ $ locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=
andy@storm ~ $


That means editing /etc/env.d/02locale and setting the LANG variable to "en_GB.utf8". Note, "en_GB.UTF-8" is incorrect.

Code:

andy@storm ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

:? Doesn't happen to me.

Code:
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # touch a.txt
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # cp -v a.txt b.txt
‘a.txt’ -> ‘b.txt’
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8"
GDM_LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo #

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