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almahdi

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Registered: 2020-07-04

Posts: 125

Terminal suddenly can't show UTF / arabic letters

How come xfce4 terminal suddenly can't show arabic letters / UTF-8 char. as it was although in preference char. encoding is set by: Advanced > Default char encoding > Unicode > UTF-8

no other letters set either than English, eg. Russian language

$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

but file:

$ cat /etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_NAME=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_TIME=id_ID.UTF-8

Anyone gone through this issue too ?

Last edited by almahdi (2023-11-23 12:53:36)

almahdi

Member

Registered: 2020-07-04

Posts: 125

Re: Terminal suddenly can't show UTF / arabic letters

follow up:
just found that a (might be some) Linux tool do it correctly: du
while ls fails

wonder how can Linux official people / admin not care enough or taken for granted